Duncan Blackmore
@arrantindustries.bsky.social
AKA Arrant Industries
Hands-on urbanism / Good development / Small sites / Planning / Experimental investment / Arts
Honcho at Arrant Land
Co-honcho at Neighbourhood
Waltham Forest DRP
www.arrantindustries.com
www.arrantland.com
www.neighbourhood.company
Hands-on urbanism / Good development / Small sites / Planning / Experimental investment / Arts
Honcho at Arrant Land
Co-honcho at Neighbourhood
Waltham Forest DRP
www.arrantindustries.com
www.arrantland.com
www.neighbourhood.company
Bottled water retail extension, Sydenham. Presumably assembled and disassembled daily.
Taken from a moving car. I wasn’t driving.
Taken from a moving car. I wasn’t driving.
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Bottled water retail extension, Sydenham. Presumably assembled and disassembled daily.
Taken from a moving car. I wasn’t driving.
Taken from a moving car. I wasn’t driving.
You can use the ones I took if you like…
July 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
You can use the ones I took if you like…
Most people not aware of the unbelievably tiny HMO standards, compared to NDSS.
An 11m2 kitchen to be shared by 10 unrelated individual adults?
Sure.
A 13m2 combined bed/living/kitchen?
Go ahead.
Dormers?! 😧
An 11m2 kitchen to be shared by 10 unrelated individual adults?
Sure.
A 13m2 combined bed/living/kitchen?
Go ahead.
Dormers?! 😧
July 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Most people not aware of the unbelievably tiny HMO standards, compared to NDSS.
An 11m2 kitchen to be shared by 10 unrelated individual adults?
Sure.
A 13m2 combined bed/living/kitchen?
Go ahead.
Dormers?! 😧
An 11m2 kitchen to be shared by 10 unrelated individual adults?
Sure.
A 13m2 combined bed/living/kitchen?
Go ahead.
Dormers?! 😧
In an area where the LA acknowledge an acute shortage of small good quality homes and the blight of HMOs (with people paying £850pcm for a 7m2 room), this would be 2 additional sustainable dual-aspect fully space-compliant homes (and numerous other material benefits recognised in policy).
July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In an area where the LA acknowledge an acute shortage of small good quality homes and the blight of HMOs (with people paying £850pcm for a 7m2 room), this would be 2 additional sustainable dual-aspect fully space-compliant homes (and numerous other material benefits recognised in policy).
This is three fully space-compliant homes (including a rearranged existing one) in an area with an acknowledge shortage of smaller homes but blighted by tiny HMOs with people paying £850 pcm for 7m2.
July 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is three fully space-compliant homes (including a rearranged existing one) in an area with an acknowledge shortage of smaller homes but blighted by tiny HMOs with people paying £850 pcm for 7m2.
They do say dormers are not a feature of the area. Meanwhile, approx 50 metres away…
July 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
They do say dormers are not a feature of the area. Meanwhile, approx 50 metres away…
How I miss the pre-Elon days when I could have made an evening’s fun out of asking people to guess the adjectives a LA with 3.5YR 5YHLS might have used to justify the refusal of +2 fully compliant homes with this roof form, on design grounds, in a highly accessible non-conservation area.
July 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
How I miss the pre-Elon days when I could have made an evening’s fun out of asking people to guess the adjectives a LA with 3.5YR 5YHLS might have used to justify the refusal of +2 fully compliant homes with this roof form, on design grounds, in a highly accessible non-conservation area.
This bottom tread is the worst bit of the Barbican.
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This bottom tread is the worst bit of the Barbican.
What style is this building please?
April 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What style is this building please?
Anybody on here an expert in old glass roof tiles? This kind of thing…
February 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Anybody on here an expert in old glass roof tiles? This kind of thing…
Right, let’s play a game of ‘who can find the planning application for the least habitable dwelling?’
I’ll start with this 19m2 ‘house’ with it’s only small window in the bathroom.
I’ll start with this 19m2 ‘house’ with it’s only small window in the bathroom.
February 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Right, let’s play a game of ‘who can find the planning application for the least habitable dwelling?’
I’ll start with this 19m2 ‘house’ with it’s only small window in the bathroom.
I’ll start with this 19m2 ‘house’ with it’s only small window in the bathroom.
Anybody want to buy a flat with a ground rent rising to £27487790694000 PA (27.5 trillion pounds a year)?
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Anybody want to buy a flat with a ground rent rising to £27487790694000 PA (27.5 trillion pounds a year)?
Costa’s Barbers has only gone a win a Civic Trust Award. Must be pretty rare for a private residence (although it’s also been an office, shop and event space in recent months). Very very pleased. Thanks to all involved.
January 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Costa’s Barbers has only gone a win a Civic Trust Award. Must be pretty rare for a private residence (although it’s also been an office, shop and event space in recent months). Very very pleased. Thanks to all involved.
Shops, offices and apartments. Light but strong. Posh but modest. Seems to gain strength with adaptation (of windows, enclosed balconies, etc). Trusts the city to take total control of the ground floor architecture. Great lobby. If my dentist told me they lived there, I’d relax into my chair.
January 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Shops, offices and apartments. Light but strong. Posh but modest. Seems to gain strength with adaptation (of windows, enclosed balconies, etc). Trusts the city to take total control of the ground floor architecture. Great lobby. If my dentist told me they lived there, I’d relax into my chair.
FWIW, this is my favourite apartment building in Valencia.
January 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FWIW, this is my favourite apartment building in Valencia.
Still current (c.1998) Bristol shopfront design guidance. Personally, I like Jim’s shop.
January 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Still current (c.1998) Bristol shopfront design guidance. Personally, I like Jim’s shop.
Not much on corners. Good stuff on entrances.
January 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Not much on corners. Good stuff on entrances.
I’m sure I’ve yet to find the Bluesky niche for such things, but please enjoy some still ‘current’ (1998) design guidance from Bristol’s ‘Responding to Local Character’ Design Advice Note.
January 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m sure I’ve yet to find the Bluesky niche for such things, but please enjoy some still ‘current’ (1998) design guidance from Bristol’s ‘Responding to Local Character’ Design Advice Note.
Just gonna post this lovely agri-vernacular aire-adjacent barn/shelter here like it was Twitter in 2017.
January 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just gonna post this lovely agri-vernacular aire-adjacent barn/shelter here like it was Twitter in 2017.
Colegio Imagine Montessori in Valencia, by Gradoli y Sanz
(photos by Mariela Apollonio because taking photos of a school can be tricky)
(photos by Mariela Apollonio because taking photos of a school can be tricky)
December 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Colegio Imagine Montessori in Valencia, by Gradoli y Sanz
(photos by Mariela Apollonio because taking photos of a school can be tricky)
(photos by Mariela Apollonio because taking photos of a school can be tricky)
Single piece folded stainless fixingless parasitic coffee bar, Valencia. Bit of me.
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Single piece folded stainless fixingless parasitic coffee bar, Valencia. Bit of me.
