letters to the editor
Just to say how much I enjoyed reading the November/ December Selfbuilder and Homemaker magazine. The articles on low budget and problem solving ingenuity are particularly refreshing. We do not all have huge ambitions or
limitless funds. Our own project had the usual limitations, and suffered from heart-stopping months when no progress was made. Thankfully the end is in sight now, and we are already able to enjoy our new self designed home. We have used several of the companies who advertised in the magazine and received excellent service. Thank you.
P. Potiphar new project Keeping a low profile on a Suffolk farm
professional memberships at all times and also everyone who owns a home should be barred from decision making due to a serious conf lict of interest, as the more homes built the greater the reduction of values on the basis of supply and demand and in respect of their own houses. The corruption in the planning system is
I enjoy your excellent magazine SBH but advise that until the antiquated planning system is scrapped there will remain a huge shortage of all types of housing. All planning officers MUST disclose their
prices have remained without the huge increases we have seen in the U.K. Permission to build takes 7 days on average
well known and elected councillors should prioritise removal of these practices. My son works in Germany where house
system to give young potential home owners a chance.
and the German authorities conduct planning in an open and fair manner for all to see. I suggest you now chase for change in the
W.P.Howard, F RICS
Situated on the edge of Reydon Grove Farm, a working farm in Suffolk, the Scott House by Norm Architects has been designed as a long and narrow flat-roofed pavilion. The architects chose this design to give the building “the magnitude and scale to correspond with the sizes of the existing barn and
old dairies on the site.” The long structure, said the architects, “conveys the transition from the meadows to the cultivated farmland and private enclosed garden.” The house sits on a slightly elevated sandstone plateau, providing a view over both the garden and the fields in the horizon. The
large overhang of the roof and thin fascia board make the building light and airy. The internal layout is open plan, only divided by freestanding elements into different functional zones. The design of the facade
makes the building highly transparent to “allow nature into the house.” The house is constructed with wooden beams and features ver- tical cladding of locally sourced larch wood, creating a harmony with the vertical cladding on the existing buildings on the site.
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