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...But in the anti-social-housing Thatcher era, these were the wrong kind of neighbours....
...The subdued period following Lloyds saw Rogers taking on an increasingly political role as the most vocal, and often the only, top-level voice for contemporary architecture and civilised urbanity in the Thatcher...
...He writes: “Thatcher saw the state as a barrier to prosperity; Johnson hails it as the incubator of growth.”...
...Edwin Dorsey, a short seller and author of the Bear Cave newsletter, has criticised the team’s lack of experience....
...Designed by architects Mikhail Riches and Cathy Hawley, the hundred houses of Goldsmith Street are the result of Norwich council cleverly negotiating rules that were designed by the Thatcher government to...
...(FT, Vox) West Country postcard Spring is usually a good time to be a thatcher in Devon in south-west England....
...When Thatcher came in we knew there would be a cut to the budgets but they actually reduced the grant to zero. Nothing. Housing was completely abandoned.”...
...Homes were sold off under the “right-to-buy” policy that became one of the defining features of the Thatcher era, in which tenants were handed the keys to property-owning democracy....
...“After Reagan and Thatcher and the fall of communism,” he tells me, “neo-liberalism became the only thing....
...The Thatcher government abandoned council housing and the ideal of the socially balanced, free and mixed society we wanted to create with it.”...
...The building regulations in place when Grenfell Tower was designed demanded generous space standards (which were abandoned by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1980) and made rigorously codified fire provision...
...Flats in council tower blocks were initially designed to generous “Parker Morris” space standards, which were abandoned by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1980....
...As the FT’s Edwin Heathcote pointed out, the fashion for abundant foliage in artists’ impressions of buildings can also disguise design flaws....
...But as Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy programme in the 1980s encouraged those on lower incomes in local authority-owned properties to buy and then sell their properties, the city’s social housing stock...
...Why The house was built in the early 1900s by British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, whom the owner had met through renowned horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll....
...There are the remains of vaults, which once housed government archives (including those from Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister), now only racks of shelving stacked with empty boxes inscribed with...
...The Thatcher era was particularly wrenching....
...He bridged the era between the state sponsorship of architecture (housing estates and public arts buildings of the 1960s) and the pure private enterprise of the Thatcher era....
...Margaret Thatcher was typically British in her suspicion of cities, yet it was Hall’s recommendations of the establishment of an urban development corporation for Docklands, a London orbital motorway and...
...In the Edwin Waugh pub, it is “tax equality day” with 7.5 per cent off everything as part of a campaign to reduce value added tax....
...Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, RRP£30 A beautifully written and deeply researched biography, which covers the years from 1983...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...The perks of power Edwin Lutyens built an incomparably grand fantasy in sandstone for the last viceroys of India when the capital was moved to New Delhi....
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