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Oh definitely! I’ll take a bit of irony over bad aesthetics/construction any day.
This is worth a read on policy suggestions (despite its oddly traditionalist and narrow framing), if you haven’t seen it already (which is where I nicked the image from):
https://www.createstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Living-Tradition.pdf
Would be nice to see more like this applied to all buildings, rather than just flat-roof pre-1920s middle class lifestyle statements.
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I hadn't seen that, it's interesting. Our side of the street put mansards on together in the 90s (long before we moved in ) - an impressive feat of co-ordination for 7 houses.
I am a little sceptical of the density argument in the paper, though. Dividing smallish terraced houses into smaller flats feels like a deeply second-best solution to the housing crisis.
NickCJ
Mansards are so much better than slopy lofts, particularly non-full width slopy lofts. One of the ironies of conservation areas is that they incentivise you to go for a mansard, as you're going in for planning whatever you do.