IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the AJ on a UK ‘radical self-build experiment’.
… A white mansion with imposing pillars stands grandly next to a row of brick terraces…
The AJ writes:
Inside Graven Hill, the UK’s radical self-build experiment
A council in Oxfordshire set out to challenge mediocre mass housing by creating a self-build haven. But is it losing its way?….
A white mansion with imposing pillars stands grandly next to a row of brick terraces. Nearby there is a Poundbury-style traditional cottage, a black house and a smattering of modern chalets with big glass windows….
On any other new housing development, such an architectural jumble would be discouraged, if not prohibited. But Graven Hill in Oxfordshire – the UK’s largest self and custom build site – is a giant petri dish for design. It’s an audacious bid by Cherwell District Council to turn an ex-army base near Bicester into a community of 1,900 homes….
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