Health10/14/2026•The Guardian
Build-it-yourself housing project was a huge success in 1970s Lewisham | Letters
John Banks on the driving force behind a pioneering self-build project in the London borough. Plus a letter from Jonathan Pearson An uplifting article by Phineas Harper about plans for self-build houses by Lewisham council in London (Free land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? , 8 October). The original 1970s Lewisham self-build scheme that he mentions, using methods developed by the German architect Walter Segal, was proposed by a friend of mine, Brian Richardson, who was a Lewisham council architect at the time. Continue reading...
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