From Buchan ... the Island of Sheep. (View Post)

This - especially lack of institutional memory - is an important point. Why my relatives live in SW London, the 1930s estates have plenty of traffic calming and modal filters, and bus stop bypasses. … (View Post)

My truism:"If people go nuts, it's because they are nuts." I love the idea of a pastiche of Poundbury. If it's in Kent, it's like The Hobbits' Shire, at Third Remove. (View Post)

Yep. Speer's (inspired by Hitler, Goering and so on) "architecture of ruins" is a fascinating mental contortion, where they considered themselves as creating a new 'Roman Empire&#… (View Post)

Presumably you mean new rental contracts? Yes - with an inflation linked policy which retains tenants, normal practice would be to reset to market at a new tenancy, or 5-10% below market to get and k… (View Post)