When Cement Meets History: The Slow Violence Done to Britain's Brick Heritage
Conservation is ultimately an act of understanding before it is an act of repair
Saving the Local Pub: Why Buildings Like the Railway Bell Matter and How Communities Can Protect Them
Historic pubs survive most securely not merely when they are listed or temporarily protected through planning refusal, but when communities succeed in embedding them once again within the social and economic life of the places around them.
Mayor Khan Must Intervene in the Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment
Liverpool Street Station needs renewal. But London should not accept, by default, a model in which essential public transport improvement is bundled to a vast over-station commercial scheme without a clear, publicly intelligible station first baseline. The City of London approved the redevelopment on 10 February 2026. The Mayor
The Quiet Removal of the Public Realm, Tower Hamlets and the Rentier State
This may be the most alarming achievement of the rentier state, not only that it cheapens public life, but that it persuades people to mistake that cheapening for realism.
Railway Bell Saved for Now: Lambeth’s Refusal Must Become the Basis for a Secure Community Future
The Railway Bell has been saved for now. The task ahead is to ensure that it is not merely left standing, but secured in viable, lasting and community serving use.
Open Letter to Lambeth Council: Refuse the Demolition and Redevelopment of the Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill
The Railway Bell is a historic public house, long embedded in the social and architectural fabric of Gipsy Hill
Open Letter to Lambeth Council: Refuse the Demolition and Redevelopment of the Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill
This open letter is being published because opposition to the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the Railway Bell is plainly broader than the number of formal objections likely to appear on the planning file. It sets out why Lambeth Council should refuse application 26/00528/FUL and urges all supporters
Lambeth and the Grammar of Redevelopment
What is being dismantled is social infrastructure: the ordinary patterns of interdependence through which people make a district liveable.
Old Kent Road and the grammar of redevelopment
When communities are displaced, architecture becomes hollow décor; when buildings are erased, memory loses its anchor.
Railway Bell Planning Objection: Why the Cawnpore Street Pub Scheme Should Be Refused
Social infrastructure rarely disappears because a community no longer needs it. It disappears because it cannot easily survive the valuation regime imposed upon it.
Who Captures Liverpool Street? A Political Economy of Network Rail & ACME
Part III: Value Capture, Governance, and the Station First Alternative Liverpool Street is not merely a station in need of repair. It is a public node that generates value, 94.5 million passengers in 2023 moving through a 5.6 hectare estate held largely freehold by Network Rail and TfL.
Stop Using Google for Conservation Search All the Time
Google does not reliably surface the best specialist results for heritage and conservation.