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Farleigh, Surrey; 24.9.2022

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Squatters take over centre that has been unused for four years

Squatters have taken over the council-owned Goldcrest Youth Centre in New Addington, for almost a month turning it into a real community centre – and so far have successfully resisted all attempts to remove them. Getting their message across: squatters moved in at the Goldcrest Centre almost a month ago The centre has been closed since the pandemic four years ago, and the cash-strapped council…

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PM Rishi Sunak Pushes for Sussexes to be Stripped of Titles and Changes to the Regency Act Amid Monarchy Threat. Changes to the Regency Act then Raised in the House of Lords in October 2022. by u/Quiet-Vanilla-7117

PM Rishi Sunak Pushes for Sussexes to be Stripped of Titles and Changes to the Regency Act Amid Monarchy Threat. Changes to the Regency Act then Raised in the House of Lords in October, 2022. "Viscount Stansgate brought up the question in Monday’s session, asking “what plans [His Majesty’s Government] have, if any, to amend the Regency Act 1937.” "The Lord Privy Seal, The Lord True, replied that the Government will consider “their legislative programme for the remainder of the session,” without opening the topic up to further discussion.""Viscount Stansgate pressed on, noting that the Regency Act 1937 “is the only reason why it was possible to open the current Session of this Parliament.” Viscount Stansgate continued, asking if the Regency Act 1937 should not be amended, particularly Clause 6—which regulates Counsellors of States—because,“Otherwise, are the Government happy to continue with a situation where the counsels of state and regency powers may be exercised by the Duke of York or the Duke of Sussex, one of whom has left public life and the other of whom has left the country? Is it not time for the Government to approach the King to see whether a sensible amendment can be made to this Act?” It is the most political rebuke of the Regency Act and the fact that both the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of York continue to be Counsellors of State despite neither carrying out official duties—and in Prince Harry’s case, no longer domiciled in the UK.Princess Beatrice, likewise, does not carry out official duties, but only became a Counsellor of State upon her uncle’s accession.Lord True replied that he would not discuss any private conversations he has had with King Charles III or the Royal Household over the matter, but noted that “the Government will always consider what arrangements are needed to ensure resilience in our constitutional arrangements, and in the past we have seen that the point of accession has proved a useful opportunity to consider the arrangements in place.”Dominic Hubbard, 6th Baron Addington, then asked if the Government would “indicate that they will at least consider that the person they go to in the first consideration will be somebody who actually undertakes royal duties, or at least some part of them, at present?” Lord True again replied that he would not commit to an answer as any changes would have to be taken in consultation with the Royal Household.Changes to the Regency Act 1937 have been a talking point in recent years with many calling for the role to be amended to working royals only, removing Princes Harry and Andrew and Princess Beatrice.Article on PM's push:- https://ift.tt/aGqA1rj in the House of Lords:- https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/changes-to-regency-act-raised-in-house-of-lords-182751/​​ post link: https://ift.tt/BlDJeIU author: Quiet-Vanilla-7117 submitted: November 05, 2023 at 03:20AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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The prolific historian and biographer Philip Ziegler, who has died of cancer aged 93, was never less than scrupulously fair – but also honest – about the shortcomings of his subjects, who included some of the most prominent men and, occasionally, women of modern British history.

Lord Mountbatten’s personal vanity, deviousness and ambition, Edward VIII’s meanness and superficiality, even Edward Heath’s charmlessness were all remorselessly revealed, even though they amounted to official biographies and are books that have shaped the men’s reputations for posterity.

“The biographer’s first responsibility is to the truth and to the reader. If he is not prepared in the last resort to hurt and offend people for whom he feels nothing except goodwill then he should not be writing a biography,” Ziegler said in 2011.

The foibles of Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India before independence, were such that Ziegler wrote a note on his desk while writing the biography in the mid-1980s stating: “Remember, in spite of everything, he was a great man.” That is not necessarily the view any longer of many British and Indian historians, though it is hard to overlook Mountbatten’s significance to the modern subcontinent and his relatives in the Royal family.

If Ziegler’s patrician, establishment status and urbane charm helped to smooth his path to selection for such monumental biographies, his industry and the punctiliousness of his research meant that they come close to definitive. He said: “Ideally the biographer should know everything about his subject and then discard 99% of his information, keeping only the essential. Of course one can never hope to discover anything approaching everything, but one can find out a great deal.”

Ziegler was born in Ringwood, in the New Forest, to Dora (nee Barnwell) and Louis Ziegler, a retired army major. He was educated at Eton college and then studied law at New College, Oxford, graduating with a first. After national service with the Royal Artillery, he entered the Foreign Office, serving as a diplomat in Laos, Paris and Pretoria.

In 1966, with his wife Sarah (nee Collins), whom he had married in 1960, and two small children, he was posted to Bogotá, Colombia, as head of chancery at the British embassy. It was there the following year that, returning home from an embassy reception, he and his wife found armed robbers rifling the house. Sarah was killed in the melee and he was badly wounded.

The tragedy persuaded him to leave the diplomatic service and take a job with Sarah’s publisher father, William Collins, then the head of one of the largest publishing houses in the country. Ziegler became editorial director in 1972 and editor-in-chief of the company seven years later. He had already published two books, a biography of the Duchess of Dino, mistress of the wily French diplomat Talleyrand, in 1962, and one of the Georgian prime minister Henry Addington (later the reactionary home secretary Viscount Sidmouth) in 1965. A book about the Black Death followed in 1969, though that was to be his only venture into pre-modern history, and one on the battle of Omdurman (1973), as well as biographies of William IV (1971) and the Victorian prime minister Lord Melbourne (1976).

In 1980, Ziegler became a full-time writer, and a regular and eclectic stream of books followed: biographies of the 1920s’ society beauty Lady Diana Cooper (1981), Harold Wilson (1993), the minor poet Osbert Sitwell (1998), the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis (2005) and the actor Laurence Olivier (2013), as well as Heath (2010), Mountbatten (1985) and Edward VIII (1990), and a short biography of George VI (2014). There were also histories of Barings Bank (1988), London during the second world war (1995), the Rhodes Trust in Oxford (2008) and Brooks’s gentlemen’s club (1991). Not forgetting, Elizabeth’s Britain 1926 to 1986 and a book of photographic portraits of the Queen (2010).

All were assiduously researched. Given access to the royal archives, Ziegler ploughed through 25,000 letters of Edward VIII, revealing the shallowness of the king who abdicated and, allegedly to her displeasure, the Queen Mother’s relentless hostility towards him. His verdict that Edward was well meaning and that no monarch could have been more anxious to relieve the sufferings of his subjects though “few can have done less to achieve their aim”, was suitably waspish.

The biography of Mountbatten, for which he was chosen by the Broadlands trustees, custodians of his legacy, was followed by three volumes of the admiral’s diaries. The biography of Heath was also both official and comprehensive, but struggled to find the man’s elusive charm.

Of the Olivier biography, he told an interviewer at the Cheltenham literary festival in 2013: “In the course of my alarmingly long biographical career I have written about an inordinate number of prime ministers, kings and the like and I suddenly decided in old age that I would indulge myself and do myself an actor.” What he found to his alarm that there was very little substance beneath the parts the great actor played.

Following the death of his first wife, Ziegler married Clare Charrington, a social worker and bereavement counsellor, in 1971. She died in 2017. He is survived by the two children of his first marriage, Sophie and Colin, and by the son of his second, Toby.

🔔 Philip Sandeman Ziegler, biographer and historian, born 24 December 1929; died 22 February 2023

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Court Circular | 31st January 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning. The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury) had an audience of His Majesty this afternoon. The Queen Consort today visited 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards at Lille Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire, to mark Her Majesty’s appointment as Colonel of the Regiment.

Kensington Palace

The Prince of Wales this afternoon spoke via video link to athletes and volunteers participating in the 2023 Arctic Winter Games in Wood Buffalo, Canada. The Princess of Wales, Joint Patron, the Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, today carried out the following engagements in Leeds to launch the “Shaping Us” Campaign. Her Royal Highness this morning visited Kirkgate Market, Vicar Lane, Leeds, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (Mr Edmund Anderson). The Princess of Wales this afternoon visited the University of Leeds, Woodhouse, Leeds.

St James’s Palace

The Earl of Wessex, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, today attended a Meeting at Award House, 7-11 Saint Matthew Street, London SW1. His Royal Highness, Royal Honorary Colonel, Royal Wessex Yeomanry, this afternoon received the Lord de Mauley upon relinquishing his appointment as Honorary Colonel and the Rt Hon Simon Hart MP upon assuming the appointment. The Earl of Wessex this evening attended the Radio Times Centenary Reception at Claridge’s Hotel, Brook Street, London W1. The Countess of Wessex, Patron, Addington Fund, this morning visited Smerrill Dairy Farm, the Bathurst Estate, Kemble, Cirencester, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (Mr Edward Gillespie). Her Royal Highness this afternoon visited Cirencester Housing for Young People, 29-31 Querns Lane, Cirencester. The Countess of Wessex afterwards visited Cirencester Signpost, Ashcroft Church, 21 Ashcroft Road, Cirencester.

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, Blesma the Limbless Veterans, this morning received Mr Jon Bryant (Chief Executive Officer).

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Lords Vote

On: Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024

Lord Palmer of Childs Hill moved that this House regrets that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/869), laid before the House on 22 August, will remove support from many of the poorest pensioners at the same time as the energy price cap is being lifted; and calls on the Government (1) to take steps to identify those who are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it so that they can receive both benefits; (2) to support vulnerable pensioners this winter; and (3) to take action to end fuel poverty, including with an emergency home insulation programme and a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies. The House divided:

Ayes: 65 (66.2% LD, 13.8% XB, 7.7% DUP, 4.6% , 3.1% Bshp, 3.1% UUP, 1.5% PC) Noes: 132 (92.4% Lab, 6.1% XB, 0.8% Con, 0.8% ) Absent: ~634

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (43 votes)

Addington, L. Beith, L. Benjamin, B. Bradshaw, L. Brinton, B. Bruce of Bennachie, L. Burt of Solihull, B. Doocey, B. Garden of Frognal, B. German, L. Goddard of Stockport, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Hussain, L. Hussein-Ece, B. Janke, B. Kramer, B. Ludford, B. Miller of Chilthorne Domer, B. Newby, L. Northover, B. Palmer of Childs Hill, L. Parminter, B. Pidgeon, B. Pinnock, B. Purvis of Tweed, L. Randerson, B. Rennard, L. Scott of Needham Market, B. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Sheehan, B. Shipley, L. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Storey, L. Strasburger, L. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Walmsley, B.

Crossbench (9 votes)

Alton of Liverpool, L. Berkeley of Knighton, L. Bull, B. Craig of Radley, L. Freeman of Steventon, B. Greenway, L. O'Loan, B. Pannick, L. Sentamu, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. Dodds of Duncairn, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L.

Non-affiliated (3 votes)

Fox of Buckley, B. Hoey, B. Taylor of Warwick, L.

Bishops (2 votes)

Sheffield, Bp. Southwark, Bp.

Ulster Unionist Party (2 votes)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L. Empey, L.

Plaid Cymru (1 vote)

Smith of Llanfaes, B.

Noes

Labour (122 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Alli, L. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berkeley, L. Blake of Leeds, B. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Bragg, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Campbell-Savours, L. Carter of Coles, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Collins of Highbury, L. Crawley, B. Cryer, L. Donaghy, B. Donoughue, L. Drake, B. Eatwell, L. Evans of Watford, L. Falconer of Thoroton, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Gale, B. Golding, B. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Grocott, L. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Hanworth, V. Harman, B. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hodge of Barking, B. Howarth of Newport, L. Hughes of Stretford, B. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Hutton of Furness, L. Jay of Paddington, B. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Jordan, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Khan of Burnley, L. Kingsmill, B. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Layard, L. Lennie, L. Leong, L. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lipsey, L. Livermore, L. Mann, L. Maxton, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morgan of Huyton, B. Morris of Yardley, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. Nye, B. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Prentis of Leeds, L. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Rebuck, B. Reid of Cardowan, L. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Robertson of Port Ellen, L. Rooker, L. Rowlands, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Sherlock, B. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Snape, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Symons of Vernham Dean, B. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Thornton, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winston, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Old Scone, B.

Crossbench (8 votes)

Boycott, B. Casey of Blackstock, B. Ford, B. Hogan-Howe, L. Krebs, L. O'Donnell, L. Walney, L. Watkins of Tavistock, B.

Conservative (1 vote)

James of Blackheath, L.

Non-affiliated (1 vote)

Austin of Dudley, L.

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Council's once-prized listed building Heathfield House left to rot

Signs of neglect: Heathfield House has been left to rot by owners Croydon Council CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough’s built heritage is crumbling into a worrying state of disrepair, with no one at the council seemingly aware of the seriousness of the situation. By PEARL LEE, our south of the borough correspondent Any Croydon residents who settle down this Sunday for the BBC’s new dramatisation of…

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Lords Vote

On: Holocaust Memorial Bill

Baroness Deech moved, as an amendment to the motion that the bill be now read a second time, at end to insert “but this House regrets that the Bill fails to allow for a full appraisal and consultation on any preferred site for a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre; and that in preparing the bill the Government have failed to establish the true cost of the project or deal with issues of security around the Memorial”. The House divided:

Ayes: 49 (49.0% Con, 24.5% XB, 12.2% LD, 6.1% , 4.1% Bshp, 2.0% Lab, 2.0% Green) Noes: 99 (79.8% Lab, 10.1% Con, 5.1% DUP, 3.0% , 2.0% XB) Absent: ~683

Likely Referenced Bill: Holocaust Memorial Bill

Description: A Bill to make provision for expenditure by the Secretary of State and the removal of restrictions in respect of certain land for or in connection with the construction of a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Lords Bill Stage: 2nd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (24 votes)

Attlee, E. Balfe, L. Bellamy, L. Black of Brentwood, L. Blencathra, L. Bottomley of Nettlestone, B. Eccles, V. Fookes, B. Forsyth of Drumlean, L. Herbert of South Downs, L. Howard of Rising, L. Howell of Guildford, L. Mancroft, L. Meyer, B. Minto, E. Noakes, B. Robathan, L. Sandhurst, L. Sassoon, L. Strathcarron, L. Strathclyde, L. Taylor of Holbeach, L. Trenchard, V. Tugendhat, L.

Crossbench (12 votes)

Berkeley of Knighton, L. Carlile of Berriew, L. Chartres, L. Craigavon, V. Deech, B. Greenway, L. Hunt of Bethnal Green, B. Kerr of Kinlochard, L. Lisvane, L. Meacher, B. O'Loan, B. Turnbull, L.

Liberal Democrat (6 votes)

Addington, L. Beith, L. Fox, L. Hamwee, B. Lee of Trafford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B.

Non-affiliated (3 votes)

Fox of Buckley, B. Inglewood, L. Taylor of Warwick, L.

Bishops (2 votes)

Southwark, Bp. St Albans, Bp.

Labour (1 vote)

Campbell-Savours, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Jones of Moulsecoomb, B.

Noes

Labour (79 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Bach, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beckett, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blower, B. Bradley, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Crawley, B. Davies of Brixton, L. Drake, B. Gale, B. Golding, B. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Griffiths of Burry Port, L. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hendy, L. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Khan of Burnley, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Layard, L. Liddle, L. Livermore, L. Mann, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Merron, B. Monks, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morgan, L. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Robertson of Port Ellen, L. Sherlock, B. Sikka, L. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Thornton, B. Timpson, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Norwood Green, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Conservative (10 votes)

Bridgeman, V. Cameron of Chipping Norton, L. Courtown, E. Effingham, E. Gold, L. Harding of Winscombe, B. Leigh of Hurley, L. Polak, L. Scott of Bybrook, B. Shinkwin, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. Dodds of Duncairn, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L.

Non-affiliated (3 votes)

Altmann, B. Austin of Dudley, L. Patel of Bradford, L.

Crossbench (2 votes)

St John of Bletso, L. Wolf of Dulwich, B.

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester

The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects.

The 144 apartment 12-storey project in Oldham Road has been developed by Mulbury City for funder and ‘long-term custodians’ of the building, Cheyne Capital.

The investment funds came from London-based Cheyne Capital’s Impact Real Estate Fund, set up to tackle the UK’s shortage of affordable housing. Around a third of the homes are earmarked for local key workers, such as nurses and teachers, at discounted rents.

The 11,690m² stepped scheme on the ‘long and thin’ plot houses a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

The practice describes the scheme as a modern ‘mill’ building.

Clad in brick, the exterior of the Poplin development – named after the fabric used to make coats on the site during the Second World War – was inspired by the warehouse arches in the surrounding New Cross area and neighbouring Ancoats Conservation Area.

Contractor GMI Construction Group took 24 months to complete the project.

Project data

Location 2 Addington St/Oldham Road, New Cross, Manchester

Local authority Manchester City Council

Type of project Residential

Client Mulbury City for Cheyne Capital

Architect Tim Groom Architects

Interior designer YOUTH

Landscape architect Layer

Planning consultant Deloitte

Structural engineer Ridge

M&E consultant Ameon

Quantity surveyor RLB

Principal designer Rawlings CDM

Lighting consultant Artin

Main contractor GMI Construction Group

Funding Cheyne Capital

Tender date November 2020

Start on site date June 2021

Completion date June 2023

Contract duration 24 months

Gross internal floor area 11,690m²

Form of contractt Design and Build

Annual CO2 emissions 1,836 kg/CO²/m²

Total cost £24 million

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He questioned me regarding my knowledge of arithmetic, which was only elementary: and when I saw that I must master it, in order to pursue the higher branch of study, I gave my whole head to the business. In the space of a month, I could cipher like a money-lender, and was ready to receive my master's teaching. My friend Massimo possessed a good collection of instruments for engineering draughtsmanship, and a library of French works on geometry, mathematics, and fortification, both of which he placed at my disposal. Signor Marchiori's lectures, long discussions with Signor Massimo, perusal of Euclid, Archimedes, and the French books, soon plunged me in the lore of points and lines and calculations. I burned with enthusiasm, droll enough to my way of looking at the world, which inspires all students of this science. Yet I did not, like them, regard moral philosophy and humane literature as insignificant frivolities. I bore in mind for what good reasons the Emperor Vespasian dismissed the mathematicians who offered their assistance in the building of his Roman edifices. I knew that innumerable vessels, fabricated on the principles of science, have perished miserably in the tempests; that hundreds of fortresses, built by science, have been destroyed and captured by the same science; that inundations are continually sweeping away the dykes erected by science, to the ruin of thousands of families, and that the inundations themselves are attributable to the admired masterpieces of science bequeathed to us by former generations; that, in spite of science and her creative energy, the buildings she erects are not secured from earthquakes, conflagrations, and the thunderbolt. It remains to be seen whether Professor Toaldo's lightning-conductors will prove effectual against the last of these disasters. Then I reckoned up the blessings and curses which this vaunted science has conferred on humanity, arriving at the conclusion that the harm which she has done infinitely exceeds the good. I shuddered at the hundreds of thousands of human beings ingeniously massacred in war or drowned at sea by her devices; and took more pleasure in consulting my watch, her wise invention, for the dinner-hour than at the hour of keeping an appointment with my lawyer. Without denying the utility of sciences, I stuck resolutely to the opinion that moral philosophy is of more importance to the human race than mechanical inventions, and deplored the pernicious influence of modern Lyceums and Polytechnic schools upon the mind of Europe.

Signor Massimo and I kept house together in a little dwelling on the city walls, facing the sea. The sun, in his daily revolutions, struck this habitation on every side; and there was not an open space of wall or window-sill without its dial, fabricated by my skill, and adorned with appropriate but useless mottoes on the flight of time. A lieutenant named Giovanni Apergi, upright and pious, especially when the gout he had acquired in the world's pleasures made him turn his thoughts to Heaven, gave me friendly lessons in military drill. I soon learned to handle my musket, pike, and ensign; an sweated a shirt daily, fencing with Massimo, who was ferociously expert in that fiendish but gentlemanly art. We also spent some hours together over a great chessboard of his covered with wooden soldiers, which we moved from square to square, forming squadrons, and studying the combinations which enable armies to kill with prodigality and to be killed with parsimony,—fitting ourselves, in short, for manuring cemeteries in the most approved style.

~Count Carlo Gozzi [John Addington Symonds, translator] [read]