Fashion designer-turned-housing critic Wayne Hemingway has delivered a scathing attack on the government’s proposals for the Thames Gateway.
Speaking at a fringe meeting organised by the BPF and the Social Market Foundation at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, Hemingway said that the sort of projects being proposed for the Thames Gateway were “rubbish”.
Hemingway, who chairs the lobby group Build for Life, continued: “The planning policies are promoting identikit rubbish and three-storey crap with no gardens.
“The Communities Plan and PPG3 [housing planning guidance] are producing housing which is far worse than the rubbish I was originally criticising.”
Hemingway first became involved in housing after protesting about the “Wimpey-fication” of housing in Britain.
Wimpey City, the urban arm of the group, promptly hired him to design schemes for them in the North of England.
References: EGi News 01/10/03
