By David Rudlin2021-02-18T07:00:00+00:00
Writing exclusively for Building Design, David Rudlin, who worked on the new national model design code, argues it will give ammunition to planners
I remember a meeting back in the early 1990s with Mr Robinson from the highways department in Manchester. We were discussing the highway implications of the Hulme Guide to Development that my friend Charlie Baker and I had been commissioned to write. Mr Robinson was not happy. In his eyes two local residents – because that is what we were; Charlie was doing this through the Hulme Community Architecture Project – had been given rein to mess with his roads and to promote irresponsible ideas like crossroads! (This was long before Manual for Streets.)