The Government is currently doing “public consultation” on its proposed sell off of some publicly owned land. Ultimately it’s to save money as DEFRA (Dept for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs) has been tasked with cutting its budget significantly. Polls are showing that 75% of us are against this and I am not going to [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Wayne mouths off about the governments idea to sell off some of Britain’s forests
Posted in 2011, Community, Economy, Urban Design on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wayne Mouths Off (again) about stupid decisions to re develop streets that can be up
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Economy, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I SHOULD know: fashion can be a double-edged sword. Quite often, it is human nature not to appreciate something until it’s almost too late or it’s gone. My mum wishes she’d said more nice stuff to my Nan before she died and there are things you’d have loved to have done in life, but you [...]
Wayne Mouths off about being brave and making a difference
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Architecture, Community, Design, Eco - Friendly, Equal Opportunities, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We get some uplifting letters and this was one is worth sharing. Many of us like the idea of building homes, many of us like the idea of building low energy homes, not enough of us are brave enough to have a go… this guy was very brave…
Vintage: Keeping the timeless, music, fashion, design and culture alive
Posted in 2011, Design, Fashion, Music, Regeneration, Vintage, Vintage Festival on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As my kids have grown into adults and I have seen them and their friends mix and matching clothes from previous decade , have seen them “borrow” from Gerardine and my wardrobes and have seen them and their contemporaries re edit great dance tracks from before they were born, I realise more and more the [...]
Urban Design and Regeneration… This is why we do what we do
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Community, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Jan 2011 we entered the next stage of community consultation with the Hillington Square project. Hillington Square was built in the late 60s and was formerly owned by King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Council. The design of the square was seen as revolutionary when it was built with its ideals of communal living spaces. There [...]
Wayne Mouths Off about the barriers to designers winning public sector contracts
Posted in 2011, Architecture, Community, Design on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot written by architecture critics recently about there being too much bog standard, generic public buildings being built. At the same time there are calls from within public service and from outside for good design and thoughtful, intelligent, forward thinking and creative designers to be recruited to help design a better [...]
Wayne Mouths off about Liverpool Anfield Pathfinder
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t been to the Anfield area of Liverpool for a while and this week had a look round and left in a state of shock, anger but also with a mid racing of what can be. Anfield is, or in some cases now, was an area of proud looking solid mid 19th century houses [...]
Our Pick and Mix lives
Posted in 2011, Design, Music on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We are often led to believe that the world is becoming a more homogenous place, that globalisation is leading to a decline in “genius loci” and that culture and places are becoming homogenised and indistinguishable. Many of us that grew up through the so called “golden years of youth culture” in the 70s and 80s [...]
Wayne Mouths Off about Bloggers
Posted in 2010, Hemingway Design Project, Vintage Festival on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Blogging can be wonderful addition to our lives, to information flow and as a release for our views. It can give an alternative unencumbered view that doesn’t have to tow the corporate line that some journalists have to tow. I have just finished the process of being part of the team delivering the first Vintage [...]
Wayne Mouths off about 6 Music… “The Soundtrack of our Lives”
Posted in 2010, Economy, Hemingway Design Project, Music, Vintage Festival on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in 2002 when I was doing my twice weekly spot on The Big Breakfast I reviewed the early Digital Radio’s that were coming onto the market. I bought my first Digital Radio myself back then and immediately transformed by aural enjoyment of Test Match Special with a sound quality that considerably trumps Long and Medium [...]
