The Cameron connection
Posted: June 7, 2012 Filed under: History, Planning, Regeneration Leave a commentAfter The Secret History of Our Streets, I wonder if David Cameron will be quite so keen to namecheck Sir Patrick Abercrombie in future.
As I blogged for Inside Housing earlier today, last night’s brilliant first episode of the series exposed the role of post-war planners in the demolition of the homes around Deptford High Street. Most prominent of all was Abercrombie, the monocle-wearing creator of the County of London Plan who said in a wartime film about the ‘dirty, dismal houses’ of the south London area: ‘You see the trouble is that London grew up without any plan or order. That’s why there are all these bad things and ugly things that we hope to do away with if this plan of ours is carried out.’
Secret history
Posted: June 7, 2012 Filed under: History, Planning, Regeneration 1 CommentHave we really learned our lessons from our post-war housing mistakes or are we still making some of the same ones?
That was the question running through my mind after watching the brilliant and sometimes heart-rending first episode of The Secret History of Our Streets last night. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, you really should make time to catch it on iPlayer if you missed it.
Read the rest of this post on Inside Edge, my blog for Inside Housing
Jules Birch 