New: How London can boost growth, cut rents and
cut emissions by making it easier to build in the right places.

London's housing shortage is brutal, but lessons from New Zealand and Texas show it's a solvable problem.

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Britain has 9 nuclear reactors currently generating clean and safe power, but 8 of these are expected to close in the next 4 years!

How can we speed up rolling out new reactors to harness the proud local nuclear heritage that exists in Britain? 🧵x.com/J_D_89/status/…

One insight from Britain Remade's work over the last 18 months has been the strength of support for nuclear in the areas that have a nuclear heritage.

Ben Hopkinson and I have looked into why this matters, and how we can speed up deployment of new nuclear to take advantage…

According to the Government’s own analysis, their plan to force all new buildings 18m and taller to have two staircases would have massive costs and barely save any lives.

Here’s my post from last year on why second staircase rules are so harmful.

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London's housing target is 52,000 homes a year.

But we've not built that many homes since the 1930s.

Building new housing is banned on a lot of land in London. It's not parks or green belt, rather it's mostly concreted over brownfield land.

The mayor could easily change this land use to build the homes London needs. Let's talk about Strategic Industrial Locations (SILs) 🧵