All Letters to the editor articles – Page 86
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Opinion
Be an insider
Edward Jarvis (Letters August 10) is quite right: get elected and influence from the inside!
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Opinion
... don’t widen it
The US bridge tragedy seems to have prompted a new round of inappropriate and irrelevant “engineer vs architect” headlines in search of a story, with a reasonable debate on the promotion of good bridge design portrayed as a “clash” between professions.
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OpinionVital ‘no set-off’ clause must stay
Despite Richard Brindley’s claims (News August 10), two solicitors specialising in construction law have advised that the ‘no set-off’ clause is fully enforceable in consumer contracts, provided the consumer has the term explained to him and agrees to it beforehand. The regulations specifically provide for this.
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Opinion
Bridge the gap
What was missing from the long discussion I had with your journalist for your story on the Minneapolis bridge collapse (News August 10) was the reference to the need for engineer and architect to work in close collaboration from the outset, not to see the bridge architect as simply fiddling ...
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OpinionBroad appeal
While I would agree with Saul Metzstein (Opinion August 3) over the high- rise housing “solution” for Cambridge shown on TV, I cannot endorse his view of David Dimbleby’s How We Built Britain series, which I thought was excellent, light-hearted and ideal material for encouraging many viewers to take a ...
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Opinion
Tax and spend
Paul Velluet raises important questions about listed buildings at risk (Letters August 3). However, he does not mention the corrosive effect of VAT that bedevils many private owners who want to maintain listed structures properly.
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Opinion
Put up or shut up
Stop moaning about planning committee decisions (Leader August 3) and do something about it. It is not difficult to become an elected councillor, so go and get yourself elected and dominate the planning committees. The political parties are desperate for articulate, educated professionals to stand.
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Opinion
Humble pie
Saul Metzstein (Opinion August 3) may well be right to castigate the housing “solution” shown in Germaine Greer’s television programme as half-baked.
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OpinionForm of flattery
How lovely to have provided the inspiration to so many high-flying young firms in the form of Eight’s Shanghai Expo entry (News August 3, pictured).
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OpinionModernists are not democrats
The rejection of Eric Parry’s glass-and-ceramic box in Bath (News August 3) has upset supporters of the “modernism is the only way forward” view, and brought to the surface the usual nonsense used to support it.
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Opinion
The big issue
During the recent flooding around the Ouse, Derwent, Severn, Avon and Thames, one government minister said: “It will not be possible for future housebuilding to avoid flood plains.”
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OpinionWork together to save at-risk sites
The latest edition of English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk and BD’s report last week have focused attention on the vast number of listed buildings across the country requiring remedial action, and the £400 million needed to bring them into a reasonable state of repair or reuse.
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OpinionPlace setting
Unlike architecture, a “good place” takes much longer to evolve and develop its form (Debate July 20).
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OpinionOut of tune
Your article on Chetham’s School of Music (July 20) presents a misleading picture.
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OpinionHawking puzzle
The reported comments by the spokesman for Donald Insall Associates on being nominated for RIBA East Awards for the Stephen Hawking Building in West Road Cambridge (July 20), go some way to explain its puzzling nature.
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Opinion
House grouse
For as long as I can remember, the debate about housing numbers has dragged on. Seeing film of housebuilding in the 1930s, nothing much has changed. We still pile lumps of baked clay (bricks) and cover roofs in slabs of stone (slates).
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Opinion
Feeling blue
As the floodwaters recede from our river plains, I am reminded of the (paraphrased) words of Joni Mitchell: Oh, they paved paradise, put up an Olympic Park. They’re charging the people £9.2 billion just to see it though, not a dollar and a half.
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OpinionGive Liverpool best of both
I read the latest negative diatribe from Wayne Colquhoun of the Liverpool Preservation Trust (Letters July 20).
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