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Community Architecture
Snow Hill, Bath
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Layout• Nine Houses
• Chelsea, Dover, Walcot, Myrtle, Inman, Cathcart, Longacre, Snow Hill and Berkeley
• Myrtle House renamed as Saffron Court prior to private sale – now housing association
• Whole area along the London Road named after parts of London – Hanover, Piccadilly, Chelsea.
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Chelsea
Walcot
Dover
Myrtle / Saffron Court
Inman
Cathcart
Long Acre
Snow Hill House
Berkeley
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Background
• Award winning Estate –Civic Trust Award
• Decline in community and some architectural decay in 1980s
• Community Architecture used effectively
• Shift from selected coucil tenants to housing for the homeless noticeable
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The problem estate?
• Bath has a good reputation but attracts social problems like any other city
• Majority housed in two areas – Snow Hill and Twerton
• Problems were antisocial, issues of fly tipping and use of open spaces.
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The Solution
1. Identity – through colour
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2. Defensible Space = pride
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Even at the rear of some blocks
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In some case this meant new access arrangements [front of same block]
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3. Removal of through access
Stair well to all Landings to provide‘ramped access’
Now replaced with Individual steps
Communal laundrylost
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4. New Facilities
• Entry phones and concierge service
• Play park reworked
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Social
• Centralised recycling facility• Community Centre
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Synthesis• Change in
Government policy + unsuccessful privatisation
• Identity through colour
• Defensible Space• Removal of through
access• New Facilities
= SUCCESSFUL
Photos – Mark OLLIS