Join us in a fast paced propositional workshop for a new housing landscape. The Ash Sakula team has been working for the past 18 months on a broad concept for denser housing called Profitable Neighbourhoods. A few assumptions will underpin the session:
1. The profit motif has for too long been separated from design, in our national discussions about housing. We will talk about investment, the long term costs to occupiers and councils, and tackle ‘profit' in its broadest sense
2. New housing must work incredibly hard at inventing a future worth living. We need to choose sites carefully, identify the places which need an injection of cultural and community energy. Often they will be places with existing heritage assets. These sites, crucially, will be aligned with very low carbon ways of living and not hard wired around cars.
3. Density is the key to immediate and long term affordability.
We will introduce a set of concepts and tools which will help everyone play feel empowered to find the housing sites which support heritage, recognise economic opportunities for adjacent communities and establish a culture of cooperation.
Refreshments, including a light lunch, will be provided.
This event is run by Ash Sakula Architects with the Historic Towns & Villages Forum and SAVE Britain's Heritage.
