Architect Lord Rogers has accused the government of overseeing the creation of 鈥渟hoddy Toytown houses鈥� on the banks of the river, with the Thames Gateway scheme.
The Labour peer said no government regeneration programme had managed to produce a world-class neighbourhood since the publication of his Urban Taskforce report in 1999.
Rogers, speaking at a debate on architecture in the House of Lords, said: 鈥淭he Thames Gateway, Europe鈥檚 biggest regeneration project, is still peppering the banks of the beautiful Thames with shoddy, Toytown houses and Dan Dare glass towers. There is something seriously wrong when new houses across the country form rootless estate. I fear that we are building the slums of tomorrow.鈥�
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