Sorry punk fans – another song title red herring there. Today I spent an interesting day in Guildford at the University of Surrey, attending a political seminar with my trade union, Unite.
Entries Tagged as 'Buildings'
Our House
October 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics
Anybody paying attention to the recent comments box to the right of this page will have seen a comment from Shirley that the plans to turn Broadfield House into flats have been submitted to the council again. The plans for conversion of the building and for ‘listed building concent’ (sic) were registered on October 2nd, […]
Great Modern Buildings – postscript
December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Great Modern Buildings – postscript · Life
It was a bit anorak-ish of me to take an active interest in the Guardian’s series on Great Modern Buildings earlier this year. Still having all of those supplements is even worse, although I could blame it on a combination of a hoarding mentality and not getting round to recycling everything yet… …unless I actually […]
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Arnos Grove??
October 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
I was sharing some idle speculation with others, mostly Danivon, about which buildings would feature in the Guardian’s series of ‘Great Modern Buildings’ when neither of us were aware it was a two-week feature and not just one week. So I was a little peeved when it featured the Gherkin (his guess) instead of the […]
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Great Modern Buildings
October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
Another thing I am enjoying this week is the Guardian’s series of pull-outs on great modern buildings – a great improvement on wallcharts of mushrooms or sharks. (I’ll reserve judgement on the booklets of speeches and interviews. I kept them all and just never got round to reading any of them) So far they have […]
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Extension
September 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Extension · Life
This is a gratuitous photo. I just thought the page could do with a picture. I saw this building in Penshurst village last weekend and was impressed by the attention to detail on the extension. The left-hand side is the original building and the right-hand half is a new addition. The new addition is extremely […]
Tags: Buildings·Kent·Photos·Town Planning
Winchelsea
April 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I have to get this out of my system first. It may only be a 7-year-old Ford, but we are quite excited about our new car. Its a Mondeo estate, 2-litre GLX, which is a bit naughty in these carbon footprint-aware times, but then we do only have one car for the family and the […]
Tags: Buildings·Cars·Photos·Town Planning·WILT
The old operating theatre
March 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
After our meeting on Saturday we headed across to London Bridge. The intention was to visit the London Dungeon, which Jayne has never been to and really wants to see. When we got there we found a queue which went on for ever. One of the assistants estimated that it would take about 2 hours […]
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Unfortunate quote
February 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Unfortunate quote · Politics
I have mentioned before how easy it is to get carried away in a planning committee, and make hyperbolic statements, but this is a classic. Broadwater Farm will be an everlasting memorial to my committee Chair of Haringay planning committee, 1967 Apparently its nowhere near as bad as it was 20 years ago, but still…
Ugly Buildings. Again.
January 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Ugly Buildings. Again. · Politics
There were two interesting articles in the papers today, which I will attempt to clumsily relate to each other. The first was Ashley Seager in the Guardian, arguing that we need a land tax to replace council tax and possibly allow reductions in VAT as well, and the second was in the Argus: a story […]
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