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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 24 July 2009
 
Post-war wire

• I HAVE just seen your article (Bullying, or a case of crossed wires, July 17).
When I was in Camden’s department of architecture in the dying days of the housing programme in 1983, this was the issue that finally made me leave. There was no work left to do except on the “post-war modernisation” programme, updating housing built since the war. Doubtless very necessary, but it was being done in a very standardised manner that included rewiring in surface-run mini-trunking. While this might be cheaper and less disruptive in the short term than concealed rewiring, I thought it would go a long way to turning decent dwellings into slums – and that councillors certainly wouldn’t want it for themselves! I didn’t want to spend my life doing that, so I left.
James Dunnett
James Dunnett Architects, N1



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