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If we genuinely want to create thriving communities rather than simply hit housing targets, infrastructure must stop being viewed as a secondary consideration building.co.uk/comment/ambit…
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FT (£) “The mayor’s target of building roughly 55,000 homes a year is a fantasy. While this is less than the government’s goal of 88,000 — a total not built in Greater London’s area since 1871 — The housing plan for London is no plan at all” ft.com/content/b83b0edc-0ea9… via @ft
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I’m absolutely delighted this was resolved very quickly. Thank you @Royal_Greenwich for such a rapid response. And to say that Fix My Street has proven to be super effective! Download the app @fixmystreet - very easy to use.
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"Like many in property, I’m often shocked by the quality of public knowledge about planning. For example, try asking a friend outside the industry about Section 106. Most will look entirely blank, or mix it up with Room 101, that celebrity show focused on banishing irksome things" propertyweek.com/insight/lea…
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the @lbrut faces a triple whammy of hits from the govt -- funding cuts, mansion tax & CIL relief. and the mothballed Stag Brewery regeneration just adds insult to injury haveyoursay.citizenspace.com…
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🏘️Community-led housing solutions can deliver high densities in our towns and cities. In 2016, eight households on Hafer Road in Wandsworth redesigned their cramped post-war terrace together and rebuilt it as 16 homes, with nearly triple the floorspace.
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This is a little intro to the Mayor's most wide-ranging strategy document, along with links to pieces about it by other people I've published at OnLondon and a podcast with the London Society: davehillonlondon.substack.co… You don't get this kind of stuff elsewhere. Please subscribe.
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there's a balance to be struck between protective policies & abandoning housing development thetimes.com/life-style/prop…
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it can be done
I went to go see a new build development a few weeks back- bit unfair to call it that, though, as there’s been a massive amount of (what I suppose is) landscaping and care ploughed into it. This was one of the cheaper homes*, and the street it sat in. We can genuinely just do things like this. It just takes care. I’m going back in a week or two to meet the development team. I’ll report (somewhere) on why and how you can do high quality housing without needing to charge the earth. *costs c10% less than a similar Taylor Wimpey home in a development 15 miles away.
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new tool from @the_tpa gives everyone access to benefits spend in their local area benefitsdata.uk/mybill
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