{"id":47347,"date":"2026-07-10T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47347"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:42:11","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-the-unlikely-return-of-the-back-to-back-from-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47347","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: \u2018The unlikely return of the back-to-back\u2019 from Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47348\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-6228543f7d6d4aaa327bc4a068043bd4 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>image for illustration:<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Back-to-back_housing,_Court_15,_Inge_Street_-_Hurst_Street,_Birmingham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7937662.jpg\"> Niki Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the viability crunch causing housing numbers to crash, some developers are starting to look for different ways to reimagine projects reports <em>Building.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Building<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housing starts in London collapsed to just 4,170 in the year to April, according to government data, the lowest figure on record\u2026 The problem is particularly acute for sites purchased several years ago before costs rose, with one in six London sites now on hold\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Matthews, co-founder of housing architect Proctor &amp; Matthews Architects, says his practice\u2019s situation is shared by others in the industry \u2018We have got projects, but they\u2019re all on hold\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Designers are experimenting with forms, such as terraced back-to-back housing, that haven\u2019t been used at scale in this country for many years\u2026 to make high-quality, high-density homes deliverable\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/features\/the-unlikely-return-of-the-back-to-back-how-the-viability-crunch-is-leading-to-experimentation-with-older-forms\/5142397.article\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Niki Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons With the viability crunch causing housing numbers to crash, some developers are starting to look for different ways to reimagine projects reports Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,30,29],"class_list":["post-47347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47349,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47347\/revisions\/47349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}