Locked up in lockdown: historic prisons and asylums as alternative housing with adaptive re-use challenges

Galford, Gregory; Peek, Gina

doi:10.1080/08882746.2015.1020707

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“…Hamel-Green (2014) interviewed a young man for pre-parole who had been given a four-year sentence for a 'homosexual liaison'. In his book about HMPP's people, Mann (2017) Despite Watson's opinion, there is a high potential of converting former gaols to contemporary houses (Galford and Peek 2015) and hotels (Turner 2016). Galford and Peek (2015) justified reusing gaol as contemporary houses within the historic built environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In his book about HMPP's people, Mann (2017) Despite Watson's opinion, there is a high potential of converting former gaols to contemporary houses (Galford and Peek 2015) and hotels (Turner 2016). Galford and Peek (2015) justified reusing gaol as contemporary houses within the historic built environment. They argue that former gaols constituted housing for the people that lived there, embodying both history and memory, and resembling the same quality which Watson saw painful: their 'livable' nature.…”

Section: Growing Sympathymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They argue that former gaols constituted housing for the people that lived there, embodying both history and memory, and resembling the same quality which Watson saw painful: their 'livable' nature. Galford and Peek (2015) adopt the point of view of Comfort (2002) that each prisoner's family life inhabited three zones of housing: the prisoner's environment within the walls, the family's house outside the walls, and the prison visitation centre that inhabited a hybrid space between the first two. Wilson (2005) validated this point of view when she was visiting her brother in HMPP and described his life within the gaol as an actual 'home,' despite not wanting to be there.…”

Section: Growing Sympathymentioning

confidence: 99%

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He holds an MSc degree in Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Egypt (RIBA awarding institute) and had lectured the Architectural Heritage Preservation and Conservation course in the same academy. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning and Management from Twente University, the Netherlands. Waled's academic and professional works look specifically at human engagement with the built environment, cultural heritage, architectural education, and the stimuli of heritage adaptive reuse design in these matters.

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Section: Growing Sympathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Growing Sympathymentioning

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Section: Growing Sympathymentioning

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“…On the other hand, proximity to hazards or risks suggest reduction of property prices such as high voltage overhead transmission lines, or HVOTLs (Bond, 2013;Wyman and Mothorpe, 2018), pollutants (Endah, 2013;Simons and Saginor, 2006;Simons et al, 2015), stigmatised properties (Chapman et al, 2019), haunted houses (Bhattacharya et al, 2019), and gaols (Broome, 1988). Living in proximity to gaols ignites numerous uncomfortable thoughts in the minds of communities (Galford and Peek, 2015) that is active through different mechanisms such as direct visualisations (Mann, 2017) or uncomfortable memories (Wilson, 2005) or both. As confirmed by Dent and Sims (2013) and Pope (2008), whether proximity to a negative influence -such as old gaols -poses actual threats to the residents, high emotive responses (i.e.…”

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“…could be easily generated towards them and maybe enough to cause fluctuation to property prices. For instance, Galford and Peek (2015) recognised the concept of 'shame' to exist among the local community around contemporary housing precincts originally an old gaol and a psychiatric asylum, leading to struggles of securing tenants. However, because these emotions are subjective, non-linear, contested, and controversial (Chappells and Shove, 2005;Shin, 2016), the resultant patterns of price fluctuations are not necessarily negativethus we need to break away from prejudices.…”

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confidence: 99%

From hard bed to luxury home: impacts of reusing HM Prison Pentridge on property values

Shehata

Arqoub

Langston

et al. 2020

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This paper uses statistical analyses to understand the effect of proximity of old prisons on property prices. The study employed semi-log hedonic regression models; a quantitative research method applied to assess the impact of proximity to heritage gaols on property prices for a case study of HM Prison Pentridge in the time range between 2015-2019. Results demonstrated that the former Pentridge has a variable effect on properties lying in and around its current heritage borders. Pentridge shows a diminution effect on prices of residential properties on its land currently being developed to a mixed-use precinct, as well as its intimate surrounding residences. Inversely, Pentridge shows a positive price-effect on properties lying at distances between 400m to the maximum study range of 1400m in the case of 'houses', and between 600m to the range of 1000m in the case of 'units'. Findings of this research suggest that prices of properties with direct visual access to Pentridge's structures are negatively affected. Results also suggest that Pentridge's current redevelopment project may have contributed positively to property prices lying outside the direct visibility zone. To be able to further validate these interpretations, similar research may consider other variables influencing property valuation, such as direct visibility of the gaol as well as interviews that assess the 'attractability' of Pentridge's redevelopment. Future studies may examine the rate of change in property price along time for each distance band from the gaol borders. Future research may also consider duplicating the methodology to assess the comfortability towards gaols converted to museums, as well as gaols that are still in operation. The originality of this research emerges from the distinct lack of quantitative evidence in the current literature. Most research has investigated uncomfortable heritage focusing on qualitative assessments of memory, stigma, commemoration, and shame, with limited scholarly attention paid towards property depreciation effects as a result of Australia's prison history, nor increasing effects due to gaols' reuse and redevelopment. Decision-makers and stakeholders of equivalent dark heritage reuse projects will find this research useful in understanding potential impacts on surrounding property prices. Property valuers and real estate companies operating in Coburga suburb of Melbourne, Australiamay use the related tables and figures in guiding their business for the coming years.

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