New housing estates 'identical and soulless'

Am so discouraged seeing this crap of architecture in Britain. More so residential homes.
We grew up being taught how English people are stylish and classy and that inspired me to pursue a course in architecture.
Now the great nation we once looked up to is building these concrete jungle, soulless as they are calling it in the 21st century?? What has become of the British society? What has become of the once cradle of architecture? What has become of the British standards being applied in Britain itself that taught other societies in the world to set standards?
Something needs to be done by the relevant building authorities to enhance human dwelling.
Let Britain cease to focus on Russian and its affairs and focus into its affairs that are really wanting.
I still believe in the British iconic architecture and the role it has played in human civilisations for centuries.
My post is not to reflect hate, but admiration of that sustainable, enduring, elegant, stylish and classy British style of centuries gone by.
Why would Brits inspire others and neglect their own? It's true that others have risen, like China, India and South America countries, but rising of other societies is not synonymous to falling of British society.

If the government is going to give me a house for free, or subsidize it, the last thing I would do is complain! Some people have no idea how needed affordable or public housing is, in capitalist societies!

And people wonder why I'm planning on leaving the UK.

more slums=more gangs smh

Thats me in cities skyline when my nuilding replicates

I would prefer housing looking better than what is being produced, but the fact is we need houses. I’d rather have something like that than nothing. It’s just there way it is.

I've been saying this for years. Soul-less, indentikit housing estates with poky rooms and terrible design. I don't know why people pay a fortune for these. In 30 years time these will be the new slum estates.

Houses is a stand alone dwelling, not 18 dwellings stuck together, that's a duplex or apartment

Most of residential London looks more or less the same to be fair, not sure what these people are complaining about, it’s all copy/paste housing

Architects should have been inspired by portmeirion. England is full of old terraced houses still with chimney pots and also very drab and uninteresting housing estates.

Their both ugly and soulless, the other ones were cut and paste too, British taste only reigns in music lol.

Flipping heck I thought it was illegal to not be able to open a window in every room in your home. Isn't it a fire hazard?

What’s the problem

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Europe has the world's ugliest housing stock. Housebuilders have zero imagination. They just build row after row of small terraced houses. In the UK, it comes back to the class system.

Terraced and semi-terraced new builds should be outlawed. Houses even in most developing countries are much more aesthetic than those in the UK

I feel as if, if these were cheap, then people would accept them more easily, but there's barely a difference

A lot of recent new builds are cowboy boj jobs apparently.

who is the architect? Josef Stalin?

In Bristol, new estates built have terrible public transport connections (in a city with embarrassing links already.) the new homes look terrible, and have small rooms. The quality is also shocking, built quick and sh^t

I love the new houses

Well that's how it is everywhere nowadays, people do not care about their cities no more. They have abused the building industry to create this new dystopian world.

do people want homes built or don't they?! this is the cheapest way to house the great unhosed and feckless in their hordes.

Just like there inhabitants.

The problem is in the construction industry it is old hat. 3D printing would be much more interesting . Population growth is the cause of demand

Brookside ruining our countryside

I say this government don't know there asses two there elbows bloody ridiculous

Why can't they look at people who got 2/3 houses an not being used an come safe scheme equal an fair two both party's an i think it go some way in solving it all.

I appreciate the thought and agree with many of the symptomatic issues addressed here, however, in cities like Sheffield, the legitimately cut and pasted terraced houses of limestone and brick have become, with time, a beauty of their own. These aren’t perfect, but I think the generally decent proportions and with a bit of human touch will age much better than we think.

Also, allowing the planted trees and shrubs to grow, will make the spaces feel older and more alive.

Just wait friends.

Looks like some type of communist housing section.

To be fair, this still looks better than a lot of British suburbs. I also disagree with some of the design choices but the developers can get away with it because the homes will sell regardless. The uncomfortable truth is that if they had used more space to make it look prettier, there'd be less homes per acre and in turn higher prices, thus even fewer people would be able to buy a house.
Maybe we should focus on the root cause of the housing crisis instead. Then we'd find that the consistent choice of the UK government to pursue sprawling, car-centric development instead of the people-focused, dense urbanism that has defined most of our history has come back to bite us.

6 months all the problems will tell the shoddy wirkmanship on these houese

Starting the piece by scanning historic homes built for the extremely wealthy is not a fair comparison. Compare modern mass housing with the mass housing of the Georgian and Victorian age, and although boring (perhaps) it is sanitary.

Ugly brick red boxes with plastic windows and doors, ugly tarmac no detail will be demolished in 40 years 🤮

600,000 net immigration might be a cause of the chronic housing shortage 🤔

fake suburbs plonked in a field, off an A road. give it a couple of decades, and they will start to fall apart.

Little boxes and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look the same.

EVen the old corporation housing estates of old, at least, had some garden space, pavements and curbs. How flamin' sad!

Great❤

It’s still better than 1960s housing

Let’s hope uk has no earthquakes they will be flattened FACT cheap materials throw them up look cheap and basic then people profit from real hard working people

This story is a joke isn’t it? Estates have been built like that since the 1880’s. Are people blind? Remember Corpnation St! An estate of identical houses.

Problem with new housing estates is the new rule to mix affordable with private, sad truth is some in the affordable homes don’t look after the homes or look after the outside which is such as shame for the people in the other affordable and private homes who do care and have respect.

These people who drivel on about magnificent Victorian buildings have clearly never heard of Preston. I live about 20 miles from that abortion of a city and it makes even corbusier's wildest fantasies look magnificent by comparison. My grandad called it jailtown saying those awful back-to-back tenements are indistunguishable from prison cells and he wasn't wrong. Clearly the slum clearances of postwar Britain forgot about Preston as the tenements are still there and lived in 200 years later.

I do however agree that no one like a noddy box, but then we could just build modern edge cities instead like the entire rest of Europe is doing, and don't forget it was Charles III's "historic beauty" dellusions that created the noddy box to begin with.

Also the green belt is very important and trading those crappy terrace/noddy/sky boxes for 5-over-1's, edge cities and skyscrapers with superior modern road/rail to better connect town with city would mean better housing standards in addition to slowing down the massacre of British nature and wildlife.

This isn't the 19th century or the 1970's, the genuine issues that plagued those developments no longer exist. And maybe having the noddy box replace those grey interwar suburbs instead of massacre the landscape and environment could work after all, certainly as far as net zero is concerned.

I don't have an issue with historic city centres and actually quite like them myself, but indecent gutter-quality housing benefits no one regardless of social class.

I hate the Truman show hell that we have

Criminal on buitifull farm land never allowed when i was a boy or later short sighted english

Ain’t most of these people getting these for free get over it lol

Desires for 300,000 new homes a year…… disaster.

There should be a government body regulating design and the impact it has so developers are prevented from building these depressing buildings.