"After twenty years of strong reaction against the multi-storey and high-rise
estates of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, policy-makers have decided we again need
to build large high-rise or multi-storey developments. We are in danger of
repeating the errors of the past."
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| Link to Barnet Times |
"High-rise housing blocks should be bulldozed and replaced with terraced homes, to help tackle social problems and remove 'no-go' areas, a think-tank report has argued.
"About 140,000 households with children live on the second floor or above in England, despite evidence that multi-storey flats attract higher crime rates and social breakdown, said the paper published by the centre-right Policy Exchange.
"... A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said:
"About 140,000 households with children live on the second floor or above in England, despite evidence that multi-storey flats attract higher crime rates and social breakdown, said the paper published by the centre-right Policy Exchange.
"... A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said:
"Ministers have scrapped the last government's Whitehall targets, which forced local authorities to build high-density flats, rather than family homes and attractive terraces."
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