Brixton news, rumour and general chat - May 2016

[ViolentPanda]

I predict more - particularly round Loughborough Junction.

Also the Taylor Wimpey promise to have a public thoroughfare serving their Coldharbour Mini Towers and the rejuvenated railway arches between Gresham Road and Valentia Place sounds very tendentious.

According to those who know about these things there is some piece of legislation called "Safer by Design" which is the architects 'Elph and Safety - and trumps everything when a private gated development is desired.

Safer by Design is basically situational and architectural crime-prevention assumptions about making sure there are good sight-lines, no nooks and crannies where fiendish wastrels might lurk, and use of decent standard-design doors and windows with decent locking systems - common to all new-build anyway.

Lambeth touted the "Safer by Design" shit at us here at Cressingham last year, and couldn't understand why we laughed at them. Cressingham already incorporates most of the SBD principles, right from the original design of the estate.

 

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Safer by Design is basically situational and architectural crime-prevention assumptions about making sure there are good sight-lines, no nooks and crannies where fiendish wastrels might lurk, and use of decent standard-design doors and windows with decent locking systems - common to all new-build anyway.

Lambeth touted the "Safer by Design" shit at us here at Cressingham last year, and couldn't understand why we laughed at them. Cressingham already incorporates most of the SBD principles, right from the original design of the estate.

Just realised we should be in the June thread. Someone had not locked the May one.

 

[editor]

Oops! Something has gone AWOL and the June thread has merged with the old May one. Let me see if I can fix it.