Shocking behaviour from the media yet again with their witch hunt on Angela Rayner 🌹. Well done Yvette Cooper for trying to talk about what most people are actually interested/worried about.

Amazing trip to Highgate Cemetery today with big sis Marguerite Kaye - highlights included Malcolm McLaren, Karl Mark and George Michael's graves - I shed a tear at George's grave!

We looked at Wisley back in Surrey structure plan & then in the SE plan - we ruled it out both times because of its unsustainable location. This is what happens when you don't have strategic planning & end up with least worst sites & not most sustainable thetimes.co.uk/article/399262…

I love #Folkstone & how the town has been revitalised through art & culture. I finally got to see Anthony Gormley's brilliant sculpture Another Time XVIII

Love this!!!

Finally got to see #StandingontheSkysEdge about Sheffield's Park Hill Housing Estate through the decades. As a planner with a keen interest in politics & a fan of richardhawley this was brilliant!

Time for a grown-up debate about GB - how we review it (strategically), where we should prioritise affordable housing & how we can make GB more 'green' - sweat it's assets. Well done The Labour Party Matthew Pennycook MP for getting this vital debate started.

For the latest episode of 50 Shades of Planning, Nick Kilby joins Samuel Stafford to talk about his fascinating journey that led to him to founding Cratus 15 years ago.

You can now listen to the latest episode in full at the link below.

cratus.co.uk/cratus-group-p…

If you missed out on our sold out BSP Public Lecture with Catriona Riddell 'Strategic planning in England: where did we go so wrong?', you can watch the recording here > youtube.com/watch?v=7D2xXM…

A brilliant opportunity to work in a really interesting (and relevant) role with a fab team!

Great to have actual evidence around multi-functional value of Green Belt. Well done!!

📢Localis has published a timely new essay collection titled 'Building consent: Housing by popular demand'. 🏘️ It brings together diverse perspectives on how to boost housing supply whilst securing community buy-in. ▶️localis.org.uk/research/build… A thread summarising the key points

Huge underperformance in housing delivery by Homes England since 2020 - 60% fewer homes unlocked than intended in 22/23.

Whitehall had created rigid programmes that didn’t adapt fast enough to turbulent market conditions:

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🏘️📖 and you can read all 1⃣4⃣ essays in our collection 'Building consent: housing by popular demand' here 👉localis.org.uk/research/build…

It was my great pleasure to contribute to this essay collection commissioned by Localis - they're all a fantastic read!!

Lots of chatter recently about strategic planning & what a new system might look like. For us to look beyond the political idealogy & rhetoric we so often hear, we need to have an honest discussion about what did and didn't work in the past-here is a summary of my experience.

The housing crisis can be solved, but the next govt must put an end to short-term thinking.

Ahead of #GE24 we are calling for a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏠

Just one year of building the 90,000 social rented homes our country needs, would add over £50billion to the UK economy.

This is really good from gabyhinsliff - and the second mainstream media piece in a week that has treated planning for housing as a serious issue, not reducible to simplistic slogans. Here’s hoping it’s a sign. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A good assessment of the challenges around GB & the increasing need to maximize the wider benefits of places like the Colne Valley Park. We must find a way of managing the Metropolitan GB around London better, including reviewing it #Bringbackstrategicplanning colnevalleypark.org.uk/what-we-need-i…

If Labour win in Scotland, the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party - Anas Sarwar - will explore the prospect of Mayoral Combined Authorities.

The institutional architecture is organically emerging as six City Region Deals already exist in Scotland.

thetimes.co.uk/article/anas-s….