Urban density advocates say heritage laws are being weaponised to constrain development at a time of housing crisis, but experts say the two can live side by side
“There is absolutely enough non-protected land that nothing old needs to be torn down and no one has to build a nine-storey building next to a terrace house.”
“Mistakes are irreversible and we could end up destroying neighbourhoods and communities in the process,” he says. Nicholas and Sam with their mother Faye in the large back garden of their Dulwich Hill home, which is currently home to a flock of chickens.He agrees with Holleran that there are much bigger barriers to urban density and believes that “heritage done well enables both greater density and better neighbourhoods”.
“The net impact is to push people further out to places that won’t complain. This leads to longer commutes and parents who can’t see their kids during the working week.
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