A great read explaining why it is expensive to build nuclear power stations in Britain from Sam Dumitriu

And there’s a photo of a MASSIVE crane too.

open.substack.com/pub/samdumitri…

#BikesAtPollingStations

An application for a single eco-friendly home.

Recommended for refusal by officers.

Approved by the planning committee.

Taken to a different planning committee and refused.

northwichguardian.co.uk/news/24282254.…

🚨 New: Nimbyest vs Yimbyest Local Councils via The Times and The Sunday Times

🚨NEW! Latest Ipsos UK Issues Index has #ukhousing at 18%, up 4 points on March - it's salience as an issue has been growing during this Parliament - 📊here are some numbers via short🧵...

Some bloke in Bristol would like to build a house. Also the neighbours don't want to lose their shortcut to Tescos so get it reclassed as a village green.

New Nimby watch
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'This scheme isn't acceptable to us and we're not going to tell you what would be.'
planningresource.co.uk/article/187044…

Ermmmm....

Andy, your housing targets a) were set by the local authorities & b) are nowhere near what is needed with no process in place to address unmet needs. You can't wear the fact you don't have any planning powers like a badge of honour & take all the credit for planning decisions

Get an instant appraisal of your site’s development potential - for free!

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Does anyone know where I can find the data for this poll YouGov did on engagement with the local plan process in 2020 for Social?

I can't find it on either of their websites.

social.co.uk/news/local-pla…

I’ve been added to a 156 person WhatsApp group of parents for my daughter’s cricket club, and someone has just asked “has everyone got their kit yet?”

Homelessness is a housing affordability problem.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand in the market.

When we don’t have enough homes, vacancy rates fall, rents go up, and more people become homeless.

It’s a supply problem!

Levels of house building in the green belt are 80% lower than they would otherwise be, increasing house prices in those areas by 20% and across England as a whole by 4%.

Source here 👇
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

This is a really, really good read on housing delivery, the planning system and localism.

samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2024/04/is-loc…

In my column for The Times and The Sunday Times this week, I write about how the The Church of England can recover a sense of social mission by building a new generation of beautiful, charitable almshouses. Highly recommend looking at the great work AlmshouseAssociation are doing

thetimes.co.uk/article/how-th…

Julius F. Harder's unrealized plan to add L'Enfant-style diagonal streets to the Manhattan grid and turn Union Square into the main civic center. (1898)

Blackstone buying single family homes is a symptom of the housing shortage, not its cause.
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