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	<title>Graham Rix</title>
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	<description>Views of a Traditional Architect</description>
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		<title>Ground Source Heat Pumps</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ground Source and Air Source Heat Pumps
In most houses heat pumps are even more pointless than photovoltaic cells. The main advantage of ground-source and air-source heat pumps is as a way of getting your 10% or 20% ‘renewable energy’ box ticked when submitting a planning submission.  If gas is available, there is no other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Grabbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will the June 2010 changes to PPS3 means for housing development?
The only real change here was to remove garden land from the definition of ‘previously developed land’.  It’s hard to see how this will work in practice, but it won’t be as dramatic as the press would have us believe. The thrust of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The greatest danger to British trees are Tree Preservation Orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For every tree saved by a Tree Preservation Order there must be a hundred felled because of the threat of TPOs. Prior to submitting a Planning application, almost every developer, large or small, amateur or professional, fells any tree within about ten metres of the proposal, &#8211; just in case the trees get ‘preserved’  Yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the optimum insulation for a cavity wall?</title>
		<link>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/what-is-the-optimum-insulation-for-a-cavity-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/what-is-the-optimum-insulation-for-a-cavity-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to design houses with a 75mm insulated cavity.  Most architects specify at least 100mm. And it’s not unusual to see, featured in magazines, up to 200mm.
Last year I asked the man who prepares my Energy Performance Certificates to re-enter a 100mm cavity width (in lieu of 75mm) into his computer, &#8211; for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The evil of photovoltaic cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to know if the politicians who devised Britain’s current policy on photovoltaic cells were slimeballs who deserve to be shot, or geniuses to be honoured.  Possibly geniuses: consider the fact that lack of investment in power stations may soon cause a crisis in our energy supply. Answer: invent a system whereby we pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How important is ‘sustainability’?</title>
		<link>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/how-important-is-%e2%80%98sustainability%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Sustainability’ should be about leaving the planet in a better place than you found it.   The appalling ugliness of most ‘sustainable’ buildings seems evidence that the architects responsible have lost the plot.
Almost all of the currently recommended sustainable measures are simply gestures.  Even the most rational ‘green’ measure (solar panels) makes very little economic sense.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was the Prince of Wales right to criticise Richard Roger’s Chelsea Barracks scheme?</title>
		<link>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/was-the-prince-of-wales-right-to-criticise-richard-roger%e2%80%99s-chelsea-barracks-scheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prince is entitled to a view as much as anyone.  Given the failure of the Planning system, it’s clear that HRH represents the views of the ‘man in the street’ to a far greater degree than Richard Rogers or most Planning departments.
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		<title>Why has the Planning system been such a failure?</title>
		<link>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/why-has-the-planning-system-been-such-a-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There can be few of man’s inventions that have that have been such a failure as the planning system.  In almost any village town or city, the half dozen most depressing places will be the result of the planning system. The half dozen most attractive places will have been constructed before the Planning system was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are modern houses so ugly?</title>
		<link>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/why-are-modern-houses-generally-so-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.grahamrix.co.uk/blog/2010/06/why-are-modern-houses-generally-so-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a wide variety of reasons.  Here are some of them.
1          Modern technology: during the last sixty or seventy years there has become available a huge range of cheap mass-produced industrial materials that previously didn’t exist.  More than a hundred years ago house builders just had to use natural materials and traditional craftsmanship.

2          Basic economics.  [...]]]></description>
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