Mapping

We started to walk the Ashurst housing estate, which was the last of the original new town housing estates to be built.
Viewing the housing and layout design, where cars can be parked, the integration of the play areas, materials used for play equipwmnt and within the housing itself, shows how adpative Council housing was, responding to mistakes made, using different materials, incorporating further more developed ideas about how people can live, and what sort of life thay could have.
When looking at the evolution of town’s construction from the first housing estate of New Church Farm to Ashurst, a view can be taken that these buildings where concerned with what people thought of them: through their design and construction, this is in stark contrast to contemporary private architecture that now pervades this country.