I was having a word with a conservation officer about a submission I'd made in Bedford Park last week. "What are those things either side of the patent glazing?" she asked. "My client is keen to use as little energy as possible and so that's a solar collector at either end of the lantern," I replied. "I don't think so." "What do you mean?" "Well this is a conservation area; we want to keep it as it is." Bedford Park was built near Turnham Green in west London in the 1920s. Back then it was the last word in daylighting, central heating and indoor plumbing, and if solar panels had existed no doubt they would have shown them off as proudly as they do their carved finials.
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