createstreets
@createstreets
Design practice, town-builder, think tank. Master-planning, design codes, research, co-creating popular, beautiful, durable Gentle Density. @CreateStreetsFN
From Post Office to pub. What will it be 50 years hence? Who knows? But it will still be here. Attractive buildings recycle. Ugly buildings get thrown away.
Everything in these photos is new. The greatest single act of place making & the best Gentle Density in Britain since the war.
A quick blog & 🧵 on the relative unimportance but not total irrelevance of empty homes. I should have added that if we had sufficient homes, a higher proportion of them would be empty!
Empty homes are back in the news. The Prime Minister said we can use them to house immigrants. Is he right? Do we have an empty homes problem in the UK? If so, what should we do about it? Can we better use empty homes to house the waiting list or immigrants…🧵