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Tour of Staiths South Bank, Gateshead with Wayne Hemingway
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Wayne Hemingway takes a tour of the Staiths South Bank housing development in Gateshead. Wayne is a member of the government Eco Towns Advisory Panel, who are advising on the new house building initiative.
The Staiths South Bank, Gateshead was awarded the Silver Award by the Commission for the Built Environment (CABE). The development is at the eastern end of a formerly contaminated isolated site at Dunston Staiths, this development is the outcome of a mainstream housing developer’s response to designer Wayne Hemingway’s provocative criticism of the ‘Wimpeyfication’ of Britain by volume housebuilders.
Commission for the Built Environment Eco Towns Advisory Panel Staiths housing development HemingwayDesign
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Comments
- Lawrence said
- 28 January, 2009 at 7:52pm
this is quite remarkable