Large urban extension to county town in Oxford-Cambridge Arc. Developer and planners have tried hard to build something different from the usual crap. But the entire core of the block is given to car parks instead of gardens. @TfNHomes #planning #urbandesign

Here is today's designing-for-cars-not-people beauty. Large urban extension, East Midlands. Live above garages, enter via parking court, no doors or windows onto the street. @TfNHomes @UDGUrbanUpdate #planning #urbandesign

This thread is from before you were born, @PlanningShit but I feel we need to hear a bit more from you on how rear parking courts have eaten up the back gardens, especially perhaps in schemes that try to balance the place vs movement role of highways