'Modern British Building are not as good as they should be and planners have low aspirations'

Pack 'em in -SEEDAs Woolston development plan broke guidelines on population density, open spaces and height of buildings...but was still voted through by planners.

"Modern British buildings are not as good as they should be and planners have low aspirations", Lord Rogers of Riverside, is reported as saying in today's Times newspaper.

The award-winning architect could not be more right. The flamboyant Richard Rogers, who is in favour of higher-density city homes, would certainly not be impressed with the quality of many recent developments in Southampton. I can imagine he would be appalled by the huge slum estate of the future that is being planned on the old Vosper Thorneycroft site at Woolston or the even more inappropriate development planned by Lindon Homes at the New College (formerly La Sainte Union College) site off the Avenue.