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11 months

This is what they took from us

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11 months

@s8mb Eurostar was originally designed to go all the way to Manchester, it then got cut down to Birmingham which is why they built the huge New Street station with (now closed) John Lewis ontop of it, and then it got cut down again to only St. Pancras.

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In the late 1970s, France started to require an architect for every new home with over 170 sq m of floor space. Here is the distribution of new home sizes after the change:

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In a devastating new piece, @jburnmurdoch shows that houses are the most unaffordable since 1876 (when we were seven times poorer) 1/

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5 months

Life comes at you fast

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7 months

Astonishing determination from Keir Starmer on Radio 4 this morning. Interviewer: Are you going to do something to that local opposition that isn’t done now. Are you basically going to say: ‘We hear you but we’re ignoring you’? Starmer: Yes, we are going to have to do that.

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Top story on the BBC News Politics section. Huge thanks and congratulations to all the many allies who worked to get to this!

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‘Manchester’s skyscrapers are being designed for people to live in. As a result, its city centre is on course to become home to 100,000 residents by 2025… there were fewer than 500 people living there just 25 years ago’ (£)

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The new reservoir for Cambridge is currently not scheduled to be completed until 2039. That is slower than the Aqua Caligula, an aqueduct built by the Emperor Caligula, a man who made his horse prime minister.

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Beginning to wonder if the UK has basically forgotten how to build anything at all

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4 years

Why didn't we do this years ago?

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11 months

Home prices in the UK exceed the cost of building them by more than they ever have, because we have not built enough of them for many decades. A stunning new graph from Prof. John Muellbauer

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7 months

We've cracked it! New and improved design for Liverpool Street Station. What do you think? Although the real Victorians would have just knocked the building down and replaced it with something much bigger, without any of this fuss about planning permission...

The Victorian Society

@thevicsoc

7 months

📣 #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation The planning application for partial demolition of the listed station to build a tower through & over the Grade II* former Great Eastern Hotel is now LIVE!! OBJECTION HERE ⬇️ To fund the campaign ⬇️

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9 months

Huge news: Labour plans to build about two dozen new towns in places like Milton Keynes

New towns are building blocks of Labour’s plan for UK growth

Labour is drawing up plans for new towns and suburbs as the party seeks to build its way to economic growth. Onshore wind farms, nuclear reactors and other gr

www.thetimes.co.uk

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

7 years

Amazing demo from @GIAupdates how rules on light make many of our most popular streets impossible to build today.

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@yimbyalliance

2 years

Could fixing housing fix everything else, too? A powerful piece in today’s Guardian, by @s8mb

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@yimbyalliance

2 years

As a non-partisan campaign, we welcome news that the Government intends to trial street votes. An enormous cross-partly list has endorsed trials to see whether they can help communities address their housing and other problems. Huge thanks to all of them 1/

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2 years

An astonishing new report on how to build more walkable, climate friendly, well-designed homes led by local communities—from @createstreets by @scp_hughes and @bswud —comes with broader support than we have ever seen before. Huge thanks to all who made it possible! #Supurbia 1/

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1 month

The language is getting stronger by the hour!

YIMBY Alliance

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1 month

The future is YIMBY

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7 months

Historic moment: the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has just declared himself a YIMBY.

Kane Emerson

@KaneEmerson

7 months

Chris Mason: “Are you a YIMBY - yes in my back yard?” Keir Starmer: “I am, yes”

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YIMBY Alliance

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4 months

Very interesting to look at what might have changed shortly before 1950:

YIMBY Alliance

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4 months

In a devastating new piece, @jburnmurdoch shows that houses are the most unaffordable since 1876 (when we were seven times poorer) 1/

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YIMBY Alliance

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11 months

And this one is even clearer:

YIMBY Alliance

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11 months

The recent chart is even more remarkable:

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YIMBY Alliance

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NEW Government publication reveals that the second staircase rules which have blocked thousands of homes had costs that exceeded the benefits by £2.7 BILLION. We call for an urgent cross-party consensus to repeal them

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Cambridge has a desperate housing crisis which is holding it back and damaging the wider economy. Adding 150,000 well-designed homes with the right infrastructure would be incredible!

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

7 months

Huge news on housing from Labour this morning! ‘The Labour leader will use his conference speech today to announce a “new generation” of large towns and suburbs in areas with high growth.’

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

3 months

Big news: Labour leader Keir Starmer says he is ‘determined’ to build houses on the green belt in the South East!

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

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‘British Land research shows there is 10 times as much lab space in the US city of Boston as there is Oxford, Cambridge and London combined.’

Labour vows to rip up planning rules to build more scientific laboratories

Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, wants to make it easier for companies to access essential space for key research in UK

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@yimbyalliance

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‘The group believes a new rail line could be delivered using both private and public finance under a similar funding model used to build the new Bordeaux to Tours high-speed link on the TGV network. Around €3.8bn of the overall €7.8bn cost of the 302km TGV line was provided by…

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6 months

There’s been some confusion about the word ‘shortage’, so we thought we would explain. 1/

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@yimbyalliance

3 months

This may go down in history as the biggest understatement ever issued by the competition authority of a G8 country

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

3 months

‘We didn’t know that… you’re telling us that for the very first time.’

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

9 months

NEW report from the NZ Treasury confirms the devastating truth: if you do not build more homes, growth in nominal wages just feeds straight through into higher rents, making landlords richer.

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

3 years

The best ever Matt cartoon on housing has arrived

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

6 years

Never let them tell you density is ugly. Housing justice is beautiful.

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

1 month

The future is YIMBY

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

1 month

Huge thanks to the many allies and supporters who have helped to make housing such a central issue!

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6 months

We’d just like to express our sympathy for the few stalwarts who have been devotedly battling on trying to argue that supply has nothing to do with it

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@yimbyalliance

4 months

This chart is even more damning

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

4 months

This is an incredibly damning chart about what has happened in housing

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

7 months

There is no cost benefit analysis for an 18m rule for second staircases for buildings. It will block many homes and would have made many Edwardian buildings unviable. The economic damage will cost more lives than it saves. We hope government reconsiders.

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2 months

NEW: British homes are smaller, older and less affordable than other countries, a new report shows

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4 months

New: @michaelgove calls for a new tax on foreign homeowners:

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4 months

Housing secretary Michael Gove said he wants to create a second Docklands in east London along both sides of the Thames involving 65,000 new homes (£)

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

9 months

Density is not the enemy

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6 years

Pity the long-suffering residents of Sloane Square, jammed together at five times the density of most of London. They must be desperate to escape...

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YIMBY Alliance

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24 days

NEW: Keir Starmer says he will create a new class of “grey belt” land earmarked for development that has few natural or aesthetic qualities!

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YIMBY Alliance

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1 month

Huge thanks to the many allies and supporters who have helped to make housing such a central issue!

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YIMBY Alliance

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2 months

Good morning! Here's a useful chart of empty homes by country

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YIMBY Alliance

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11 months

From here:

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7 years

Insensitive bulk and massing, not in keeping with surrounding area. Reject.

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6 years

For some reason, visitors to Paris do not spend their time complaining about overshadowing and the shortage of six-lane highways

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3 months

Shocking decline in homeownership among young adults in the UK from 1990 to 2013 compared to other countries – @jburnmurdoch

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YIMBY Alliance

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2 years

Tolosa, Spain. A little greenery and a little effort to make pedestrians feel welcome. It doesn’t take much to create places people will want to be in.

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3 years

Worth clarifying something in this piece by @andrewgregory – overcrowding, not density, causes the spread of disease. Well designed density is the *solution* to overcrowding. Otherwise South Kensington and Covent Garden would be hotbeds of covid.

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@yimbyalliance

3 months

Good news - approval has been granted to replace Birmingham’s Ringway Centre with homes!

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7 years

Heartfelt thanks for the kind ideas and help from YIMBYs and friends for our first report out today! #betterstreets

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4 months

@jburnmurdoch What happened shortly before 1950?

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11 months

We’ve just learned that the Eurostar was originally going to go via an underground through station at King’s Cross, and then on to the North, but that plan was abandoned:

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

11 months

This is what they took from us

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4 years

Amazing map of house prices per square metre, showing how many prices are far above the cost of building more good homes.

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3 months

NEW: the Competition and Markets Authority has published its final report on housebuilding, and has concluded that too few homes are being built, which has worsened affordability!

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3 months

A brilliant new piece from @jburnmurdoch shows the critical importance of better rules to deliver more homes and reduce the housing crisis - why Texas has done so much better than California in getting homes built: 1/

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1 year

Can someone please explain how this ever got approved?

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7 years

Outside the historic centre, most of London is just two-floor, low density, low-rise. Amazing new map from @emu_info

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@yimbyalliance

7 years

New Hsieh and Moretti paper concludes San Francisco jobs growth would be 689% higher in a better land use system

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@yimbyalliance

5 months

When is a wood not ancient woodland? When @NaturalEngland says it isn’t for 13 years, 180,000 pages of planning submission and hundreds of millions of pounds in costs, and then changes its mind two weeks before the inquiry ends.

Lower Thames Crossing: Trees along planned route are ancient woodland

Campaigners renew calls for the project to be scrapped as part of the planned route is redesignated.

www.bbc.co.uk

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

7 months

One of the biggest pieces of news here is a decisive move away from the failures of the later 20th century New Towns, which were often in places with few good jobs and sometimes even no rail ink (Skelmersdale)

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

7 months

Huge news on housing from Labour this morning! ‘The Labour leader will use his conference speech today to announce a “new generation” of large towns and suburbs in areas with high growth.’

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

1 year

It’s almost as if having incredibly unaffordable housing wasn’t a great idea

The Guardian

@guardian

1 year

About 700,000 UK households missed rent or mortgage payment last month

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5 months

Good summary of the problems of leapfrog, car dependent development, showing why new homes need to come with good access to jobs, transport and infrastructure

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4 months

Great article by @clara_murray on England’s housing problems. Worth adding that many areas with zoning (eg Manhattan) have housing shortages too: zoning only helps if you bring in the right rules. We need win-win planning reform to get a working system and fix housing.…

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2 years

Venice? No, gentle density in Canterbury.

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2 years

Can’t believe this onshore wind power ever got approved

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6 months

A better world is possible

Liverpool: Then and Now

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6 months

Albert Dock, 1982 and 2023

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This is an incredibly damning chart about what has happened in housing

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

4 months

‘The ratio of house prices to earnings in Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, is now over eight, compared with a norm of closer to four for most of the 1950s to 1990s. Just getting onto the first rung of the ladder is much harder as a result.’…

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8 months

Building any new homes reduces costs for all, explains @jburnmurdoch

Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all

Building unsubsidised housing pushes down rents and prices while freeing up cheaper properties

www.ft.com

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3 months

Not sure we are entirely convinced by the Telegraph’s claim that this proposed change will ‘provoke civil war’… 🤔

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7 months

Is there anything these councils in the expensive south of England could do to make more housing available?

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6 years

Let’s hope this @resfoundation report puts the final nail in the coffin of the ‘no shortage of homes’ myth

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@yimbyalliance

7 months

This is the safest building in the world according to new UK Government policy

George McGowan

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7 months

@_ArnaudS_ @yimbyalliance

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3 years

How to reduce overcrowding and create space for growing families? @SCP_Hughes has incredible support (eg @genrentuk @PricedOutUK @ben_derbyshire ) for his new @createstreets report on mansard roof extensions in @thesundaytimes

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YIMBY Alliance

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6 years

One of these has five times the housing of the other. Which do you prefer? Have a #YIMBY weekend!

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@yimbyalliance

10 months

Incredibly strong words from Keir Starmer: "just as I will bulldoze through planning laws to reignite the dream of homeownership"

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

1 year

An astonishing new report from @watling_samuel and @AntBreach for @CentreforCities argues that the UK has a shortfall of 4.3 million homes relative to the average European country!

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@yimbyalliance

11 months

As a result of that needless shortage of homes, land (mainly the price of needlessly scarce planning permissions) is a bigger share of UK household assets than in any other G7 country.

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@yimbyalliance

3 months

Shocking failure to build homes in London for decades: stunning graph of a century of London homebuilding in the new report by @BritainRemade

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2 months

“My focus is on reforming the planning system to get Britain building again... If we do those things, we will bring in the tax revenue and we will be able to invest in public services again. There's no shortcuts. That is the way.”

Beth Rigby

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Labour will not bail out bankrupt councils says Rachel Reeves >

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10 months

A few people in Cambridge have expressed concerns about enough water for all the new homes. We are delighted to be able to announce that a technology to supply more water has been developed.

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@yimbyalliance

7 days

Great to see the Guardian talking clearly about the ‘housing shortage’. We need to build more homes!

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YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

6 years

Horrific damage to the skyline. How did this ever get approved?

European Beauty

@MagicalEurope

6 years

Kilcoe Castle, built around 1450, lies on an islet in Roaringwater Bay, south east of the village of Ballydehob in County Cork in #Ireland .

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4 years

People often ask us what suburban intensification might look like. There are countless examples all over today’s cities. Here’s one, in Chelsea in London. What would a new version of this be like?

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11 months

The recent chart is even more remarkable:

YIMBY Alliance

@yimbyalliance

11 months

In the late 1970s, France started to require an architect for every new home with over 170 sq m of floor space. Here is the distribution of new home sizes after the change:

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7 years

Many parts of London have only one-tenth as much built per acre as the historic centre! Incredible, first ever map of cubic built volume per hectare including non-residential – showing stations, bus stops and more, by the amazing @emu_info at our request

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YIMBY Alliance

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2 years

Congratulations to the new Housing Secretary @SimonClarkeMP who was among the first in the wide cross-party coalition that has endorsed street votes — a strong believer in building more housing that people can afford, with the support of local communities

Street Votes - YIMBY Alliance

yimbyalliance.org

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@Archi_icons Do we think the residents are choosing to live in these new flats because they are worse than the other options available to them?

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@yimbyalliance

5 years

We have heard disturbing reports that this was not built on a brownfield site and we are calling for an investigation

CreateStreetsAmerica

@CStreetsAmerica

5 years

Bath’s famous Royal Crescent, UK

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7 years

Georgian and Victorian answers to a need for more homes. Why don't we get our vision back?

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4 months

The most common situation for young adults used to be living in a couple with children. Today the most common is living with their parents. 2/

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4 years

And here we see the horrors of development without the protections of modern rules on daylight

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3 months

New: ‘Gove is proposing a change to national policy to apply the presumption in favour of sustainable development to applications on brownfield land in the 20 largest cities and urban centres, where housing delivery has dropped below expected levels’

Michael Gove: If the young can’t get housing, they will abandon democracy

Restoring young people’s dreams of a roof over their heads will give the Conservatives — and democracy itself — hope of survival, says the housing secretary

www.thetimes.co.uk

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2 months

Better planning can deliver 1.5 million homes in a greener way, with better access to public transport and nature: a new report from @createstreets and @Sustrans by @djjmilner and @tobylloyd , with endorsements from @LukeSMurphy and others:

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5 years

You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen the five floor Tudorbethan apartment blocks of the Holly Lodge Estate, built in the 1920s for single women and with more homes per acre than most of London.

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1 year

A broadly-supported report by @SCP_Hughes for @createstreets suggested a deft and popular way to add more homes and bedrooms where badly needed: sympathetic mansard extensions. There are 3 days left, so please express your support to the Government here:

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2 years

NEW - an incredible list of tech and startup leaders call in today's Telegraph for the Government to address the housing crisis, backing a new report by @Utilit_Aria and @TenThinkTank