wayne hemingway bus tour

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wayne hemingway tour
- affordable housing

wayne hemingway fell into the fashion business
as an geography student. he and his wife launched the
label 'red or dead', currently, having sold 'red or dead'
in a multi-million cash sale, wayne now runs 'hemingwaydesign',
a design and consultancy business.
hemingway is branching out into housing after he complained
about the 'wimpeyfication of britain'. the house builders wimpey
responded to the criticism by inviting him to design a 700-home
project in tyneside.
as well as dispensing style advice on the bbc channel
(big breakfast) he does media writing (monthly articles in
FX magazine, esquire and the independent).
http://www.hemingwaydesign.co.uk

'affordable housing in britain is a big problem.
demand is already pushing prices out of reach of the average
income household. by the time our children will be thinking of
getting on the property ladder, the problem will be even bigger.
there will be nearly four million new households by 2021,
a rise of nearly 20%.
28% of people say they would choose to live in a typical modern
housing development. even with low public acceptance of their
products, builders know for every new house they put up,
there will be at least two potential buyers, such is the lack of
housing stock. in a situation like that, they do not need to change.

architect, builders and planners should look for new ideas in other
countries to offer people more choice.
it would take a very brave government to announce any significant
relaxation of greenbelt legislation. but it doesn't have to be like this.
in swedish, german and dutch cities and in australian cities
(where believe it or not there are land shortages) visually exciting,
forward thinking, desirable, affordable and - importantly profitable
developments are springing up.
also in london, there is hope...

there are houses great to look at, innovative and designed with
the people who live there in mind. social housing built to provide
homes for key workers who live locally.
there are lessons to be learned for outline types of buildings.
it does not have all the normal red-brick, boring, new pvc windows stuff.
they have gone for wood cladding that is allowed to weather, great
designs in metal, concrete, mixed the materials.
if you give people a bit of visual excitement, they usually respect it.
apart from being well designed and tastefully fitted out, there is
emphasis on private and communal green space,
which the people respond to. ' he told us.

on the tour we met :

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michael aukett architects
tesco/notting hill housing trust
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