Anna Minton

“The tide may finally be turning against knocking down social-housing estates”

November 27, 2023 Anna Minton 0

Vast swathes of London’s social housing continue to be demolished in the name of estate regeneration, but Anna Minton believes things could be about to change. Estate regeneration schemes have seen more than 100 of London’s council estates demolished and replaced with developments of predominantly luxury apartments, redefining the British capital and fuelling the housing

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“More than 30 years after she left office Margaret Thatcher’s stamp on the city remains”

February 20, 2023 Anna Minton 0

Defensible space policies championed by right-wing politicians in the ’70s and ’80s continue to alienate people in low-income areas and blight our public spaces, writes Anna Minton. Margaret Thatcher is not best-known for her contribution to design, but more than 30 years after she left office her stamp on the city remains. It’s there in

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“Using street votes to fix the housing crisis is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic”

June 15, 2022 Anna Minton 0

The UK government’s plan to encourage “gentle densification” of neighbourhoods by promising communities financial benefits and neo-Georgian aesthetics will not help solve the housing crisis, writes Anna Minton. Street votes, mini referendums and design codes are the UK government’s latest plan to solve England’s housing crisis. Last month ministers introduced the Levelling Up and Regeneration

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“The red flags raised by the MSG Sphere relate not to aesthetics but to democratic failure”

April 14, 2022 Anna Minton 0

More important than the aesthetic shortcomings of London’s planned spherical venue is the failure of democracy that is allowing it to be built, writes Anna Minton. A decade on from London 2012, a gigantic sphere as tall as Big Ben and as wide as the London Eye looks set to be the latest piece of

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