What a fascinating article about another very complex urban challenge. We urgently need to develop properly integrated urban planning, management and maintenance strategies.

Trafford today. How did this become OK?

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Good Luck to Lincoln City FC 🇺🇦 today. Win and we are in the play-offs. I will be there cheering them on 👍

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Unlocking more large brownfield sites is key to delivering on Labour’s commitment to 1.5 million homes over five years.

A pleasure to be in Lincoln with Hamish Falconer For Lincoln and councillors today to discuss how we could supercharge the city’s ambitious Western Growth Corridor project.

Under last The Labour Party Gov, a role of reg planning was to identify barriers to strategic b'field sites & work with the GO & RDA to unblock. It needed strategic planners to identify & prioritise the sites, arrange fund streams & co-ordinate the diff partners (incl developers).

Breaking: Labour will force a debate on mad, unravelling, Conservative plans for RAF Scampton. They will have to explain why they are costing Lincoln £300 million of private investment for a plan they know, the NAO knows, and we know, won't work. 1/2

Dear .Kay Burley 'at least five *people* have died crossing the channel'.

They're people not 'migrants'.

Rome may have not been built in a day.

But its legacy began today, exactly 2,777 years ago.

Here are its greatest masterpieces... (thread) 🧵

1. The Pantheon (128AD)

As a champion of #responsible business #ukmfg and the #green economy, I strongly disagree with this view from Luke Johnson of GAIL's Bakery.

Everyone is entitled to their view, but most of #ukmfg , I speak to believes the route to higher competitiveness is to accelerate the route…

These look great - but do you always need an additional person to throw you forcibly on to the bed?

I appreciate that we need to make homes energy-efficient, but not like this.
Let’s concentrate more on getting both buildings and the places they contribute to right - making sure they work well, feel right and look good (all three simultaneously).

Is this another example of the new silly Part O Building Regulations making homes less nice and windows smaller to no purpose? It looks like it.

The windows on the left are the communal stairwell. We suspect they originally intended to use the same windows for the flats on the…

An example of the myth that competition solves all problems. Great places (& their transport systems) develop mostly through collaboration - sometimes formal and immediate: sometimes informal and across generations. Competition plays a part, but collaboration makes the difference

Trams have huge potential to transform urban streets, to make them calmer, cleaner, greener and both more efficient and more sociable. Lighter-touch, lower-cost solutions like this are just what’s needed - particularly for smaller cities.

Best of both worlds: a city where people use both trams (streetcars) and bicycles.

One problem: the tracks can be a real hazard, esp. for bikes with thin tires.

Now, #Ghent in #Belgium is reducing...
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E-bikes are a potential game-changer for the ease, speed & safety with which we move around our towns, villages & cities

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