The chimney looks wonderful Judith. A local council here is establishing an industrial park on a site where industry had already been. They cleared everything away but my husband Nigel, landscape architect, advised them to retain this wonderful big rustic looking silo which had a wonderful steam-punk look about it. Another senior person involved was keen to keep it too. Did the rest of them take any notice? No of course not! Now its just a flat boring site that they’ll no doubt plonk a whole lot of boring buildings on to. Why do decision-makers not have respect for the sense-of-place and time that keeping a few landmarks like this imparts? Its so short-sighted! This comment turned into a rant – apologies for that. Your top photo is really lovely!
Thanks for your comment Liz. Spittal has had it’s share of dull, inappropriate buildings but the village is now a Conservation Area so developers have to be more imaginative. Around the turn of the century British planners started to pay attention to the ordinary buildings which can be important to a community’s sense of history and identity. You might find this report on Berwick by Historic England interesting: https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/berwick-upon-tweed/berwick-upon-tweed.pdf/
June 21, 2018 at 2:35 am
The chimney looks wonderful Judith. A local council here is establishing an industrial park on a site where industry had already been. They cleared everything away but my husband Nigel, landscape architect, advised them to retain this wonderful big rustic looking silo which had a wonderful steam-punk look about it. Another senior person involved was keen to keep it too. Did the rest of them take any notice? No of course not! Now its just a flat boring site that they’ll no doubt plonk a whole lot of boring buildings on to. Why do decision-makers not have respect for the sense-of-place and time that keeping a few landmarks like this imparts? Its so short-sighted! This comment turned into a rant – apologies for that. Your top photo is really lovely!
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June 21, 2018 at 8:59 am
Thanks for your comment Liz. Spittal has had it’s share of dull, inappropriate buildings but the village is now a Conservation Area so developers have to be more imaginative. Around the turn of the century British planners started to pay attention to the ordinary buildings which can be important to a community’s sense of history and identity. You might find this report on Berwick by Historic England interesting: https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/berwick-upon-tweed/berwick-upon-tweed.pdf/
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