When does a mansion block cease to be a mansion block? London's second ever neighbourhood plan (in Fortune Green and West Hampstead) was very clear that residents valued the neighbourhood's red brick mansion blocks.
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Our approach to the Marefair site was not to replace one large building with another large building but instead to create street fronts and rediscover and assert their rhythm with narrow plots and many doors.
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In 2015 at the request of, and working with, the local neighbourhood forum, residents from the Kennington Park Estate and the Save Oval Campaign Group we drew up a sketch alternative master plan. We called it Little Oval.
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Over the last few years Create Streets has been encouraging and supporting a partially community-led programme for the populist beautification and intensification of London's arterial roads with a range of beautiful, popular, medium-rise developments.
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In 2015 Affinity Sutton (as it was then called) announced its desire to demolish 13 of the Sutton Estate's 15 mansion blocks. The proposals were widely criticised for presenting London with a triptych of needless destruction.
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Many members of the public seem resigned to the fact that new functional buildings must be ugly and de-sensitising. But this is a fallacy. In 2016 Create Streets worked up an alternative approach to a proposed new Premier Inn at 153 Broadway in Wimbledon, South West London.
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London's population is now on track to exceed nine million. The main route, therefore, that we are taking to providing new homes is by maximising density on a comparatively small number of sites. We build a lot in a few places.
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One of London's most controversial developments over the last decade has been the replacement of the Earl's Court exhibition centre in West London and nearby social housing estates. This has involved the fairly needless destruction of the rather pretty street, Empress Place.
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