Our country has a growing population, an aging housing stock and a younger generation who have been priced out of home ownership - and for whom even renting a home costs far too high a proportion of their income. In no other time in our history would housing be thought of as pollution. We are failing to create the listed buildings of tomorrow. Rather than an architecture displaying a rich array of local vernaculars we can celebrate and honour, crafted using traditional materials and skills with a distinct sense of place - and even become a way of affirming identity and belonging - we see instead a crushing of imagination, with houses designed by accountants. Instead of beauty and a natural order, we see a sterile sameness almost everywhere we look. Our forebears possessed an instinctive talent for making great places, yet somehow this is an art we have almost entirely forgotten.Ī gap has opened up between the places we want to see and those we actually create. England is blessed with some of the most beautiful villages, towns and cities in the world.
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