IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen on ‘… the fate of UK social-housing estates… an urgent topic’’

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 Dezeen on ‘How the fate of UK social-housing estates has become an urgent topic’.

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Dezeen writes:

….the fate of UK social-housing estates has become an urgent topic as councils grapple with the housing crisis and challenges of preservation.

Regeneration of social housing estates – which typically involves demolishing… [and] reduces the proportion of social-rent homes – has become a highly contentious issue….

Nearly 60,000 social-rented homes have been bulldozed in England over the last 10 years….

Anti-demolition campaigns have frequently drawn the attention of the architecture community… notably the unsuccessful attempts to save Robin Hood Gardens in east London, razed in 2017…..

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