Save Ada Lewis House

Ada Lewis House is a handsome old building, currently useful and loved, but about to be demolished along with its mature garden and trees. #RetroFirst 🍃💚🍃

[Save Ada Lewis House @AdaSave]

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We did mention it @lbhf @SouthernHsg_UK but you ignored. Now we have an ugly new building that is considerably higher than its surroundings, in a conservation area. #retrofirst

[The Conversation @ConversationUK]

Demolishing buildings is bad for the planet – here’s an alternative https://t.co/kKKPGMqWsg

[SOS Paris @SOSParis]

Cette parcelle arborée du 12e arrondissement n'avait jamais été construite. L'anomalie est rectifiée : le jardin a été complètement rasé et le chantier d'un immeuble de 6 étages, lancé.

[C20 Society @C20Society]

NEWS // We're pleased that permission has been refused for the demolition of Orchard House in Crockham, Kent, following a strong objection by C20.

Designed 1924-26 by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, one of Britain's most prominent Arts & Crafts architects, it is a distinguished example of his Kentish Weald style dwelling.

[STRAWPlymouth @STRAWPlymouth]

Public space being sold for development. Residents not informed so couldn't object. Now they have made justified objections to the planning application they are being ignored by councillors and officers who refuse to even call it in to committee.

What sort of a system is this?

[Save Ada Lewis House @AdaSave]

@ChelFulhamBen You abandoned us though. Gave planning permission to @SouthernHsg_UK for a completely unsuitable modern block in the middle of a Conservation Area, taller than every house around it.

[Save Ada Lewis House @AdaSave]

Except in @lbhf where they destroyed 5 mature trees to build a big concrete lump taller than the surrounding houses in a conservation area. https://t.co/VdFm2b7IiE @SouthernHsg_UK

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So in keeping for a conservation area @HammersmithSoc

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“The new building will not be higher than the surrounding buildings” said the planning application @lbhf 👀

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Genuinely ecstatic that Wellingborough tree campaigners have won today in High Court! This vindicates climbing a tree to stop felling: it was not only the morally right thing to do, it was preventing *illegal* destruction of nature by developer & council

https://t.co/4mtRsSU2lh

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@SustainableTall Also: they’re ugly.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

This should be illegal

Demolishing a building with 80 one-bedroom apartments, to replace it with 31 ‘luxury’ apartments

https://t.co/5fKnbKbYCR

[Save Ada Lewis House @AdaSave]

@SustainableTall Yup. Look at our header. Destroyed a lovely old building, now building one that looks like an office block *in a conservation area* 😭

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

@AdaSave @LBHF Nor will it be @NorthNorfolkDC, which loves nothing better than a totally unnecessary demolition, particularly if there's a good interwar building involved.

[Save Ada Lewis House @AdaSave]

@fugitiveink @LBHF @NorthNorfolkDC Terrible. Ada Lewis House was 1907 and in use. 😭

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Well it’s certainly not going to be @lbhf

[Just Space @justspace7]

Is Westminster the first council to realise that London’s developers run a carbon factory which needs strict policing? Westminster council unveils plans to become a ‘retrofit-first’ city | News | Housing Today https://t.co/l2zq9iINP0

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@Lisa_SEND @dhotya

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@mattprescott OfSTED/converting schools to academies - plenty of cash to be made there

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Housebuilders in England may be made to look after trees they plant @lbhf ⁦@SouthernHsg_UK⁩ https://t.co/GWai6WsWIB

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@PastoralThings “”This was sent to me” 😉 @_DHOTYA

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Yes we’re looking at you @SouthernHsg_UK

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

As I travel a lot with my work, I see a lot of new build housing estates. Rarely do I see new tree planting schemes that survive past the first year. The country seems to be littered with skeletons of newly planted trees.
As a landscaper, it frustrates me that in this industry, there’s a complacency around the establishment of newly planted trees/shrubs/hedging and their management in the first 2 years. It’s a waste of resources and in my opinion, money would be better spent on planting younger and native specimens, which haven’t spent years in a fertile container of compost, only to be put into (more often than not) heavy clay soils or builders rubble and be expected to flourish.
Out of these 10 specimens at the end of my road, only 3 still have some leaves on (the rest have died) are in decline and will probably not survive past next year.
The industry needs a reform to ensure that the efforts made to plant new trees isn’t a waste of time/resources.