A pride of Lyons

What did the great modernist SPAN architect Eric Lyons have to do with the New Towns?

At the start of last month I returned to New Ash Green, a place I’d written about in Concretopia. There I met members of the Arts Community and did a talk about Eric Lyons, the inspirational architect behind Span, and the connections and contrasts between New Ash Green and the postwar new towns. I also met up with Patrick Ellard, who I’d interviewed for