The second of the housing projects which I went to visit with Jeremy Dixon were the houses he did for an enterprising developer called Michael Taylor in Lanark Road, Maida Vale. This was a time when he and Fenella Dixon were experimenting with new housing types based on the traditional model of the villa and the street with seven apartments per villa, each of which were sold to Council tenants in 1983 for a fixed price of £17,500. At a time when there is a crisis in low-cost housing, it seems slightly odd that no-one is looking back at these experiments of the early 1980s which contribute to the city and have been well maintained.
These are the sales particulars, with an essay by the architect in which he extols ‘one of the the great virtues of London as a city’ as ‘its domestic and dispersed character based on streets and squares of houses’:-
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