Your regular reminder that 81% of new social housing lettings go to white British tenants and 90% go to UK nationals. At a dangerous political moment, please don't let the right establish one of their favourite narratives (lies): that immigrants get all the council housing.

Our countryside is a source of great pride. The next Labour government will work hand in hand with environmental groups to protect our precious nature and wildlife businessgreen.com/news/4162224/k…

Installation of rooftop solar panels in UK hits 12-year high in 2023 dlvr.it/T1Df8n

Our Director Jason Prince is giving oral evidence to the Transport Committee's inquiry into strategic transport objectives - tomorrow at 9.30am. Witnesses also include Andy Burnham, Martin Tugwell, Paul Miner of CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England & Cllr Louise Gittens. Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/db…

📢 At 9.30am tomorrow we're holding the second session of our inquiry into strategic transport objectives. We'll be hearing from Andy Burnham, Martin Tugwell, Jason Prince, Paul Miner and Cllr Louise Gittens. 📺Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/db…

Great new report from IPPR (with some help from @cpre alumni!) on active travel, rightly calls for a single national transport strategy aiming to reduce car use: ippr.org/articles/strid…

New short-lets regulation ‘good news’ for rural areas – claim CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England Paul Miner #shortlets #ruralproperty #holidaylets #Airbnbeffect #fixedtenancies #rentalmarket thenegotiator.co.uk/new-short-lets…

Big 3 remaining fixtures, ranked by difficulcy. [sky]

"Hidden in plain sight, a mutant algorithm has caused Britain to concrete over the countryside for more than 70 years.. Scrap it, the authors argue." Detailed coverage of our latest report #SteppingOffTheRoadToNowhere by Martina Lees in today's The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/we-mus…

Government response to the Fursdon review of Natural England and Dartmoor has been published. gov.uk/government/pub… Defra agree to fund a Dartmoor Land Use Management Group, within the DNPA, working for 2 years on a multi-functional landuse framework & Plan. 1/8 short 🧵

🚨🏘️📖today we publish "Building by consent: housing by popular demand" - a collection of 1⃣4⃣ essays providing answers & ideas on what a successful planning system that generates community support for development might look like. localis.org.uk/research/build… 🧵

📢📜 Pleased to report by 4th PhD paper has been published in #EcosystemServices 🌳🚶‍♀️with Joanna Zawadzka & Alister Scott For the first time we quantified Ecosystem Service #multifunctionality and trade-offs in an English #GreenBelt and found.... 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…

Sterling Heights, MI, joins a list of other Detroit suburbs that will convert dying malls into town centers. Lakeside Mall will be redeveloped into 2,800 new housing units and a town center. Converting dead malls is an easy way to create town centers in the suburbs.

🎙️🏘️ many thanks also AndrewJTaylor & Vistry for supporting the essay collection 📗👉 localis.org.uk/research/build… & good friends Catriona Riddell Andy Von Bradsky, Paul Miner CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England |Anna Clarke @HousingForum |

🎙️🏘️ and thanks again Samuel Stafford & AndrewJTaylor as well as Catriona Riddell Paul Miner Anna Clarke for chance to talk through Localis housebuilding essay collection "Building Consent" 👏👏👏👏👏👏

The Northern Housing Consortium has called for the government to devolve and simplify funding for brownfield regeneration #https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/nhc-calls-on-the-government-to-devolve-and-simplify-brownfield-funding-87893

Very sad to hear my dear friend Nicky Gavron has passed. A stalwart of London and Haringey politics, she was a life force at City Hall. Passionate about the Climate Emergency, the Built Environment and Urban Planning she improved the lives of so many people. Generous, kind and

The Fabian Society Renters' Reform Coalition An interesting discussion on the rural housing crisis at The Fabian Society Housing Summit, with CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England. The session has a really clear message: rural areas desperately need more social and genuinely affordable housing.

European Champions. Again. Congratulations to our six Lionesses on retaining their UEFA Women's EURO 2025 title ❤️