After 2 years we finally got planning permission for our scheme of 29 apartments and ground floor retail on Tiviot Dale, Stockport. The scheme had no objections from anyone! @andyburnham @mtpennycook you will never deliver 1.5m homes without more radical changes to the planning system.

If you are at Labour Party Conference tomorrow, do come along to our breakfast panel kindly supported by @EconomicHeart this panel will feature Chris Curtis MP, @DanielZeichner, @cllrsusanbrown, @djjmilner, @RachelAFisher and Naomi Green.

It’s fair to say the one at the top of Cambridge’s King’s Parade won’t be winning any barrier beauty pageants.

A Roman street by night

A global tram renaissance is underway. Why isn’t London jumping on board asks @boys_nicholas for @CityAM London, once home to the world’s largest tram network, squandered it all. How can we get back on track? "London is the city of lost trams. Londoners made 280m tram journeys as early as 1895. By the 1920s, London had the world’s largest tram network. The system was created with private capital and municipal borrowing and largely paid for itself from passenger fares. This was public transport for the public good with little public subsidy." You can read more....

Does the public prefer traditional architecture? Half a century of surveys find: worksinprogress.co/issue/do-… - Between 60 and 95 percent prefer traditional architecture; - This pattern holds across gender, class, race, nationality and political views; - More traditional densification schemes seem to attract remarkably high levels of survey support; - Laypeople and design professionals respond dramatically differently, with professionals far more favourable to modern styles. Research is still at an early stage, and many questions remain. Personally, I am particularly interested in how the public would respond to a non-traditional but richer and more decorative style? I think they might like it, but we don’t have hard evidence yet. But the results are already puzzling. Why do people end up buying buildings that are so different to the buildings they say they prefer? How did we end up in this odd situation? What can we do about it? Read more in @RobertKwolek's definitive review of architectural visual preference surveying.

Dare to Draw! Join our @CreateStreetsFN practical one-day course with @shepherdmg and learn how to sketch buildings, streets and places with confidence. Designed for planners, urban designers and anyone who loves architecture - no previous drawing experience needed. 📅 Saturday 19 September 📍 Create Streets Office in London 🎟️ Book your place: createstreetsfoundation.org.…

1880's rowhouses in Louisiana, Missouri

A little look at the making of Palimpsest ✏️ This drawing took almost a year to complete, building up layer after layer of graphite. Palimpsest is currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Summer Exhibition (Closing this Sunday 23rd August) @royalacademy