Housing

In 1961, Sir William Parker Morris published Homes for Today and Tomorrow, this became the guide to building new social homes over the next two decades. Just as it is said that much of sociology is a debate with the ghost of Marx, much of the current debate about housing standards is couched in their relationship to ideas set out in 1961.

The ‘northern powerhouse’ has already suffered one major setback. The decision to delay the introduction of new electric rolling stock on trans-Pennine lines has caused much gnashing of teeth and rightly so, the whole powerhouse edifice stands on the principle of connectivity.