Council estates on the drawing board now must be resilient to future pandemics

By Brendan Kilpatrick 2020-08-20T05:00:00

Brendan Kilpatrick, Senior Partner at PRP hi res

New book by Brendan Kilpatrick looks at mistakes from the past and design principles for the future

You are part of a family of four living in a two-bedroom upper flat originally constructed by the council in the late fifties. Each member of your family has 9m² (about the size of two bathrooms or a standard UK prison cell) within which to live and sleep for month upon month of pandemic-induced lockdown. You have zero access to a balcony or external amenity.

This is a condition that still exists in many of our housing estates. Contemporary space standards are only marginally larger. And new dwellings are still being constructed outside London without external balconies.

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