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Formerly - University of Manchester Urban Design & Town Planning Masters.
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I think it would be great to start a new thread of constrained urban infill sites in the UK so I will start one now to highlight where every opportunity to deliver new homes can be taken.
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First up DPQ
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@PaulCam99553227 I'd tend to agree!
I genuinely burst out laughing
@PugRockSE9 Genuinely any other design would be better. There are some other doors I dislike but this takes the biscuit.
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Paul Smith 
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Developer, land promoter, planner, surveyor, cyclist. MD of @WeAreSLG, LPDF director, @PricedOutUK advisory board, @Housing_Today columnist, PropTech advisor
Matthew Carmona
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Professor @ the Bartlett UCL, Chair of the Place Alliance, architect / planner; research interests: urban design, design governance, public space, place value
Philip Barnes
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Land and Planning Adviser for Savills. FRTPI, FRICS. Housing, Economics, Planning, Member of RICS Expert Panel on Land.
The number one planning policy I would like to see brought in nationally would be that this style door is banned throughout the country through a nationwide article 4 direction. Every time I see it my heart sinks and it never makes a building look better.
@buctootim The thing is I can and often do change my trainers and they are not a change to the built environment in perpetuity that must be considered against local and national policy and guidance regardless of if you feel they should be.
@Jonnyrock69 Early home PC vibes too.
I have no word
@MoaningMinnie25 Every single door manufacturer offers this as an option too.
@CardiffSpinster I don't have an issue in principle to either black/grey. Depends on the setting and the building, but anthracite seems to be the default for everything at the moment. Arguably white PVC is also pretty bland. In terms of LVIA white is the worst when it comes to sensitive locations
@andymhamilton I also dislike them. They look like oversized early 2000s kitchen cabinet handles.
@thealastairw Mine is low but I got a parcel and letter box to make up for my sin. Letter go in that and parcels mainly end up in wheelie bins or stolen despite the purpose built parcel box.
@keepingitshtum That's interesting, I've seen it in all different locations including the most undiverse of locations so I hypothesise that poor taste does not care of race, creed or religion.
@tigerofwrath @_DundeePerfect_ I don't know the religion, any, if any, of the occupants or the designer of the door. Regardless, I do feel that the level of harm it's causing to my mental health as well as the street scene is not acceptable.
@jonburkeUK I don't think fentanyl was invented quite yet
@BitcoinBertie @ChrisHowellFCA
So no it was free as some LPAs are but there is no paid option that was offered and really I was just amazed at the poor quality of the response full stop.
Just received a pre app response from a council which was 179 word long. The submission was 17 pages and for a 14 storey co living building in Manchester.
You couldn't make it up.
@TheMurkyDepths @MrOkereke @tom_creswell_ Once operational unfortunately they often don't bother the lost revenue and planning risk is not worth it would be my guess and they are pursuing growth in the amount of stores as top priority.
@labourball Some yes and some no. Just gets weirder.
I get stressed out going past this development. It is so unnecessarily ugly it's unbelievable. It has no consideration of the context at all, cropped out of this photo.
Who can say which is better
@labourball I don't actually know. I will investigate bit nothing other than the ridiculous height suggests any liveable space.
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