Which part of the country would you rebuild and ‘start again’

I’m not going to nominate anything because to one person, what may be an eyesore can be a thing of fascination for another.
Very true TinSoldier, and when you live in a place you have more affection for it - well I do anyway.
I kind of agree with M0nica that the financial area of London has gone all swanky panky and taken away the older more interesting buildings, but that only accounts for a relatively small surface area in the bigger picture. For me, coming from the Eastern fringes of London, there is a wealth of old architecture in Hackney, Shoreditch and even good old Bethnal Green where we have Victorian houses, old canalside warehouses, parks etc. alongside newer blocks of flats. The regeneration has been/ is being carried out sympathetically to incorporate old and new. Certainly the facades of old hospitals and schools are retained, and very often the newest parts are built upwards on top of Victorian buildings whose foundations will last forever. The past lives on in the present in London.
(Boris, as Mayor of London, was thankfully stopped from tearing down quite a few old buildings in the area). Thankfully.

Centre of Plymouth, yes ghastly!

My dad would have voted for Bangor.

Joseann

Centre of Plymouth, yes ghastly!

I haven't been since that happened, if and when I do, I'll probably cry at the vandalism.

I'd unbuild where I live, in an ideal (imaginary) situation.

I'd put back all the quaint quirkiness that has been taken to make room for "luxury retirement apartments" and the like.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have all of the ruined or lost to time abbeys, priories and monasteries back -just imagine!

Chocolatelovinggran

Joseann I agree with you totally. I love that in one London street you can travel in architecture from Tudor to Georgian through Victorian to last year.
In contrast, my youngest daughter loves central Paris for the homogeneity of layout and building.

I also love the architecture of Paris..

Joseann

Centre of Plymouth, yes ghastly!

Lived in Plymouth about 30 years ago. Think I've been back twice (such a long way away!) and only after the big revamp! Not sure what to expect now...

Plymouth is better than it was, but the layout doesn't do it for me. I much prefer Exeter with the Cathedral at its centre and the old Roman walls.

I love the architecture of Paris too, so romantic. It's no surprise Paris is the backdrop to so many films. There is a very modern part, la Défense, where all the financial institutions are.

My home city of Bristol. I'd like to reconstruct all the historic buildings and cobbled streets that were flattened during the war and all those that were needlessly destroyed by the then city planners. So many buildings could have been saved but were demolished and replaced with brutalist architecture. It was licensed vandalism.

I’d have two branches to my planning. I’d downsize London and upsize somewhere further north, maybe Manchester or Edinburgh. One could be the seat of government, the other the seat of business/finance and then hopefully the country would be evened up a bit.

SeaWoozle

Joseann

Centre of Plymouth, yes ghastly!

Lived in Plymouth about 30 years ago. Think I've been back twice (such a long way away!) and only after the big revamp! Not sure what to expect now...

Of course, Plymouth City Centre got completed bombed during WW2 and was rebuilt in a very modern style with pedestrianised areas and new buildings in Portland stone.

With trees and green areas.

There’s one major contender in Wales, it even made Comic Relief. At least we can laugh about it though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwzRV3AU9Q

Casdon

There’s one major contender in Wales, it even made Comic Relief. At least we can laugh about it though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwzRV3AU9Q

Brilliant 😂😂😂
How did I miss it?

The town that eventually got a Debenhams, years after everywhere else. Just before they all closed down.

The Council destroyed one thing that made Newport famous; the beautiful mural commemorating the Chartists.

Beauty isn’t something the planners in Australia seem to consider. It’s all about money.

I'd remove most of the new build housing estates in Essex countryside. The rate they are building North Essex will end up being part of Greater London. A new housing estate of 50 houses has been recently started on the edge of our village and apart from the visuals of the area being spoilt, every time it rains we are cut off by floods in places where it has never flooded before. No provision is ever made for the impact of the removal or trees and the concreting over of land that normally absorb rainfall.

I am sure it's the same all over the country but I can only speak about what I know. They build those awful modern offices like the Gherkin and the Shard in London instead of homes for people. All brown field areas should be used for housing before any further building is permitted on green spaces.

Almost the whole of Wakefield.

I think we need to do more than just look at city layouts and the aesthetics of certain buildings. We need to to look at the whole infrastructure. In my local area, roads are frequently being dug up because of road surfacing problems, water leaks etc. These things concern me more than a few ugly buildings.

Mamardoit

Smart motorways. They should never have been allowed.

I absolutely agree with this, I'm actually worried about driving on them though my car is fairly new and reliable.

So many of our historically significant buildings, both the humble and the grand, are being destroyed, not only for commercial gain, but for badly needed new homes for an ever increasing population, estimated to top 70 million in a few years. Will this decline in our green spaces and heritage buildings stop? Go figure!

In Spain 32 years, and I would definitely renovate the main highways of Spain.

National 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Some of the areas are desperately in need of repairing.

The north east (UK) where all the little mining villages are. The pits were closed and industry gone and the poor people just left to sort it out themselves. The Government don’t seem to recognise or want to know the area. Lovely people and they should be given a helping hand to rebuild this wonderful and beautiful area.

I have always thought that architects should have to live on. The buildings they design for others. Then we wouldn’t see so many prize winning eyesores.

And Slough is a top contender for starting again.

Live in not live on

London again: The A4 which cuts across Hammersmith with a horrible flyover and then tears through Chiswick just by Hogarth’s house and Chiswick House It should be buried underground and the nasty, disintegrating A316 with it!