Update Zero affordable housing units despite tens of millions of profit for greedy developers ..meanwhile the new planning chair doing media interviews going on about a passion for affordable housing You can’t take these Labour councillors seriously + the city suffers for it

Thanks so much to ⁦ITV News Tyne Tees⁩ for showing our sound project Sanctuary of Sound tonight @The Arches ⁦Newcastle University⁩ ⁦@MartinHeslop3⁩ with co creators from ⁦West End Refugee Service 🧡⁩ 👏👏💚💚 also featured ⁦@HostNation_NE⁩ 🙏🏻🙏🏻 ⁦@CFTyneWearNland⁩

Great morning spent Laing Art Gallery thinking about representations of and access to #nature, and the presence/absence of #wildlife and #people in constructed and idealised landscapes. Hopefully more to follow! 🌿🖼️🖌️

Facadism. Not the first time that my studio has turned to air in this part of Newcastle. unofficialculture.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/sta…

🚧 Our September City Forum: Citizen Led Planning! With Julia Heslop, Geoff Vigar (Newcastle APL) & Chris Bernard (@iloveouseburn) 📖 Book onto a heritage spotlight tour for Heritage Open Days 🎒 Grab one of our Architectural Explorer Backpacks! 🔗farrellcentre.org.uk

Remember to sign up to our next CITY FORUM, focused on CITIZEN-LED PLANNING with Geoff Vigar (Newcastle APL), Chris Bernard (@iloveouseburn), Julia Heslop & Owen Hopkins. Free🎫 here farrellcentre.org.uk/explore/city-f…

Hearing on local Facebook (Amanda Marks) & via the National Park that the wonderful Sycamore tree at Sycamore Gap, has been chainsawed, almost certainly illegally. So sad. Our broken relationship to nature summed up in one shocking act Northumberland National Park Rangers N'land National Park @NENature_

And as it stands, an amendment ensuring all planning decisions take climate change into account is still up for debate next week. (Yes, that’s right. Currently the climate emergency is a bit of a secondary consideration in planning – not great!) [7/8]

I'm recruiting for a #PhD student in #geography #planning #landscape or another related discipline to work at Newcastle APL on the environmental impacts of #housing development. Check out the advert: ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f… Newcastle University Academic Track

We created Episode 3 of Translating Ferro/Translating Knowledges with Julia Heslop. The episode explores the recent changes that have happened in Shieldfield in Newcastle. We imagined a conversation between a resident and a planner. Dwellbeing Shieldfield soundcloud.com/capapie/episod…

Join INE and Regional Studies Association for the launch of the book, Social Infrastructure and Left Behind Places, and a lively discussion featuring author John Tomaney and a great panel of academic and policy experts. 🗓️20th March, 17.30-19.30 at the Common Room. eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-infra…

'Newcastle United owners deliberating on whether to stay at St James’ Park – Two alternatives possible' The Mag themag.co.uk/2024/03/newcas…

In Issue 11, Julia Heslop explored the history of the land that Lancaster University's Bailrigg campus is built on, and the tendency towards enclosure in British history. epoch-magazine.com/post/lines-of-…

For this Kidical Mass North East we are supporting the national day of action to support #SafeStreetsNow a campaign to minimise road danger.

Great turnout of nearly 200 riders for the North Tyneside Kidical Mass North East and credit to North Tyneside Council for coning off a dedicated stretch of cycleway for us as the real thing isn't finished yet. I also spy a new build out bus stop being built