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Dunstans Road - new houses - unoccupied


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The guy that threw these up needs a good doctor, I think. Look like late 80s/early 90s builds of the worst kind. I'm unsure on the planning situation and guess anyone nearby would have said no way to the current "product." Perhaps he ran out of cash halfway through the build and that would have been when the market began cooling back in 2016. If I had the money I'd probably knock them down and start again! Shame really.
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I walk past those most days and I'm unable to fathom who in their right mind chooses doors like those. Hideous doesn't come close. And clearly they'll all need steps up to the front door, too, which they needn't have required.


Cheap and ugly.

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I saw a man clearing stuff in the front garden the other day. No activity since.


Such a strange waste of land on a great road. The houses look tiny - I think either 2 houses, or flats would be better suited to the space - fair enough if they're affordable, but they're no good to anyone in their current state!

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kford Wrote:

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> Terrible. And it looks like they didn't consider

> access on the left hand side, hence the odd, bluff

> wall on the roof.


Believe it or not, that wall on the left is a design feature.

It is meant to be in keeping with the party wall fire breaks that extend above the roof of the terraced houses to the left and according to a local architect I spoke to is likely one of the reasons that planning permission was granted.

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teetomthomas Wrote:

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> kford Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Terrible. And it looks like they didn't

> consider

> > access on the left hand side, hence the odd,

> bluff

> > wall on the roof.

>

> Believe it or not, that wall on the left is a

> design feature.

> It is meant to be in keeping with the party wall

> fire breaks that extend above the roof of the

> terraced houses to the left and according to a

> local architect I spoke to is likely one of the

> reasons that planning permission was granted.


The mind boggles

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I'm looking forward to the day the new owners discover this thread about their houses.


I cannot stand pastiche architecture, particularly 'Victorian style' (although as it happens there is quite a nicely done terrace at the bottom of Bromar road). These Dunstan's houses have taken all the worst elements of fake Victorian (the doors!), fake 1930s (the awful bays) and added out-of-place modern features (upstairs windows) then wrapped it all in a 1990s brick. I'm guessing they completely fail to meet RIBA guidelines for minimum indoor and outdoor space and really should be razed to the ground, with all involved (from developer and architect, to builder, to Southwark planners) receiving a firm kick in the nuts.

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