Buy land, they’re not making it anymore

from University of Gloucestershire Graduate Newspaper 2020

Nights

Poppy Mattthews

The green fields of England are being replaced at a fast rate by hundreds of new housing developments.

Reports say that 3 million homes must be built in England over the next 20 years to solve the ‘housing crisis’, with the government planning to build 250,000 homes by 2022.

In 2018-2019 the number of new homes built in England hit its highest level in almost 30 years.

This project explores a number of different housing developments around Cheltenham, focusing on the impact that these new housing developments have on the land they occupy and the communities that surround them.

Root to Home

Chloe Southworth

When the British government enforced the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020, I moved from my university accommodation back to my family home in Preston. ‘Roots to Home’ explores my time with my family during this global pandemic. Depicting how I am learning about them and developing our relationships with none of the distractions of daily life. I have lived in this family home since I was six years old with my Mum, Grandad and Nan. My Nan has Alzhimers and whilst she is not immune from coronavirus itself, she is immune from the panic and stress that is infecting the world right now.