ABSTRACT
The Minet Estate is a mainly residential area of around 60 hectares in south London in London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. This chapter examines the planning and design process of the Minet Estate and discusses the roles and relationships of those involved in creating the housing: surveyors, architects, builders, landowners and developers. When the Minet Estate was built up in the late nineteenth century, London was still expanding rapidly in area and most new housing was built on ‘green fields’, on land that was previously agricultural. The height of the housing on the Minet Estate varies, ranging from a mixture of terraced, semi-detached and detached houses of two to four storeys to several blocks of flats of four to five storeys. The example of the Minet Estate is pertinent considering that not all new development within Greater London is necessarily high-rise.
