Somewhere Worth Living

What this check doesn’t establish

• Every linked URL resolved. Three refuse automated requests (Architect, Parliament, the UPF repository) and were read in a browser or through an API.
• Revised 9 October 2026. The beaver paragraph was cut and its records removed. The Downing passage gained the spy and cowboy-builder material, sourced to Number 10's own history where possible.
• Revised 8 October 2026 after review. The Katz sentence, the characterisation of the beauty camp, the 41.6 m2 figure, the quoted principle, the Okey link, the Pepys link, the Parliament report, the Holbeck attribution and start date, the green gentrification wording, the Bee Network sentence and the design code link were corrected in the draft to match their sources.
• The 41.6 m2 figure is average added gross floor area (SHON) per home. Sample flats gained 25.3 to 60.5 m2 of usable area.
• The rent claim for Grand Parc rests on the architects' own account, reproduced in Architect and the Architectural Review. Completion is 2016 in the project sheet and 2017 in Architect.
• The Penguin listing for Modern Buildings in Britain gives 7 April 2022 for this ISBN while listing a 2024 hardback; the publication date is unclear.
• The Holbeck Viaduct link is an editorial on The Burnham Programme website (26 July 2026), whose operator was not established. The last train is 1983 in the editorial and 11 October 1987 on Wikipedia; both fall within the essay's 'since the 1980s'.
• The Monk Bridge source is a trade-press supplier news item; it supports the 300-metre garden.
• The Parliament restoration source is a May 2023 Committee of Public Accounts report (HC 1021); later developments were not reviewed.
• Commons names Historic England as author of the Downing Street photograph; the file metadata credits York and Son, as the caption does.
• The author's recollections of working in Number 10 are firsthand and not independently checked. Places the author has lived are deliberately not recorded.
• The essay's discussion of green gentrification, adaptive reuse, social infrastructure, maintenance and devolution has no matching concepts. Proposals are in docs/concept-proposal-somewhere-worth-living.md and await approval.