{"id":670,"date":"2010-12-16T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-12-16T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T14:44:26","slug":"the-poll-house-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/the-poll-house-result\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poll House result…"},"content":{"rendered":"
You may remember a while back that I posted a design that we were currently working on with three alternative massing arrangements. In case you missed it, here’s the LINK<\/a> to the relevant page. This page also included an online poll asking which scheme the public preferred (as the catchline in PollDaddy says ‘Are they thinking what you’re thinking’). The poll came about due to a difference in opinion between myself and the planning department; their comment was that a cantilevered form wasn’t a traditional Mayo feature (which I guess is true) but the Council’s Rural Guidelines also allow for ‘contemporary design’. The poll was interesting in that up until very recently the votes were split very evenly between the cantilevered and non cantilevered design, if you check the poll today you will see that the preferred option is a non-cantilevered format, which goes to show that ‘they definitely weren’t thinking what I was thinking!’.<\/p>\n Well, I put on my thinking cap, did a completely different redesign to those proposed and submitted the design on a Further Information request. And here is what we did…<\/p>\n