Williamson told the BBC that until he went to study architecture he lived in a council estate in the East Midlands, “and every time I go back there all the council houses have been sold off, they’re in private hands. <\/p>\n
“Which in a way can be a good thing – we’re in a homeowning democracy – but the sad thing is they haven’t been replaced. <\/p>\n
“Every time I go back – without getting too emotional – I think ‘where would we have lived?’ <\/p>\n
“So to me that’s why this particular project was important. I think a lot of people from that sort of background live in terrible accommodaiton – temporary accommodation which isn’t safe or secure. <\/p>\n
“These houses are fantastic and they’re part of a mixed scheme so it’s got a fantastic feel to it. <\/p>\n
“For me it was a very inspirational, emotional, part of the process.”<\/p>\n
Duggan, who was brought up in south-west London, said the scheme “challenged conventional suburban housing layouts centred on roads, private gardens and clearly defined front and back spaces”.<\/p>\n
Winding paths and planting weave between the blocks, connecting them and linking shared outdoor spaces.<\/p>\n
She said she wanted it to be a public space people felt they could belong to.<\/p>\n
“Housing needs to be progressive. People who live in the building have access to green space, allotments.”<\/p>\n
The site fronts onto Lion Green Road, with low-rise green belt housing set on higher ground to the south and traditional suburban streets to the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williamson told the BBC that until he went to study architecture he lived in a council estate in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}