Platform 5 Architects have won planning permission for the “Boot House”, an infill three bedroom house arranged around a courtyard garden on a tight Islington plot flanked by traditional terraced housing. The house is boot shaped in plan and section; the new three storey “shaft” of the boot faces onto the street, in-filling the three metre wide slot between the adjacent townhouses. To the rear, the two storey “toe”, designed within the existing building’s envelope, pops up out of the back gardens to obtain long views down the back of the terraces without overlooking the neighbouring properties