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🗺️NEW: Our map of prices of homes per square metre is now INTERACTIVE 🗺️
We’ve launched a live version of our map of property prices per square metre, using the latest data from
@HMLandRegistry
and EPCs.
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This is what they took from us
@s8mb
Eurostar was originally designed to go all the way to Manchester, it then got cut down to Birmingham which is why they built the huge New Street station with (now closed) John Lewis ontop of it, and then it got cut down again to only St. Pancras.
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In the late 1970s, France started to require an architect for every new home with over 170 sq m of floor space. Here is the distribution of new home sizes after the change:
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NEW: Keir Starmer ‘will unveil plans to build 1.5 million houses over five years by forcing councils to approve new homes, including on the green belt, warning that those who refuse will have development imposed upon them as part of a “zero tolerance” approach to nimbyism.’
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NEW: Local residents will lose the right to block housebuilding, Keir Starmer will announce today.
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Beginning to wonder if HS2 could have been done a bit faster
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In a devastating new piece,
@jburnmurdoch
shows that houses are the most unaffordable since 1876 (when we were seven times poorer) 1/
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Astonishing determination from Keir Starmer on Radio 4 this morning.
Interviewer: Are you going to do something to that local opposition that isn’t done now. Are you basically going to say: ‘We hear you but we’re ignoring you’?
Starmer: Yes, we are going to have to do that.
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Top story on the BBC News Politics section. Huge thanks and congratulations to all the many allies who worked to get to this!
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‘Manchester’s skyscrapers are being designed for people to live in. As a result, its city centre is on course to become home to 100,000 residents by 2025… there were fewer than 500 people living there just 25 years ago’
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The new reservoir for Cambridge is currently not scheduled to be completed until 2039. That is slower than the Aqua Caligula, an aqueduct built by the Emperor Caligula, a man who made his horse prime minister.
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HS2 will now reduce capacity between London and the northwest by 17%. In a crowded field, this has to go down as one of the most epic failures in the history of British infrastructure planning.
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Beginning to wonder if the UK has basically forgotten how to build anything at all
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We haven’t finished a new reservoir in the UK since 1992. This should have been built ten years ago. No wonder we have a housing crisis.
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Home prices in the UK exceed the cost of building them by more than they ever have, because we have not built enough of them for many decades. A stunning new graph from Prof. John Muellbauer
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We've cracked it! New and improved design for Liverpool Street Station. What do you think?
Although the real Victorians would have just knocked the building down and replaced it with something much bigger, without any of this fuss about planning permission...
📣
#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
The planning application for partial demolition of the listed station to build a tower through & over the Grade II* former Great Eastern Hotel is now LIVE!!
OBJECTION HERE ⬇️
To fund the campaign ⬇️
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Huge news: Labour plans to build about two dozen new towns in places like Milton Keynes
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NEW: Labour plans big increase in housing targets, with large rises in unaffordable areas!
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NEW: by the third week in office, Angela Rayner intends to tell councils to start regularly reviewing their green belt boundaries to ensure they meet housing targets!
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Big news as
@AngelaRayner
and
@LouHaigh
approve expansion of operations at London City Airport!
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Amazing demo from
@GIAupdates
how rules on light make many of our most popular streets impossible to build today.
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🚨TODAY: A new report from the Tony Blair Institute underlines the URGENT NEED TO BUILD MORE HOMES to end the housing crisis.
Our new work with
@InstituteGC
sets out the scale of the problem and what to do about it.
7 things we learned writing this report 👇
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📉 Britain has nearly the worst quality homes of any high income country
NEW analysis today shows that decades of undersupply and underinvestment in housing have left us with the cheapest and lowest-quality buildings of any major Western country.
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This has now been approved! 353 new homes
Controversial residential tower in Bromley South recommended for approval.
🏠 353 rental homes
🛒 Re-provided Waitrose supermarket
🚉 Bromley South station 50m from site and a reduction of 40 car parking spaces
💷 Total CIL Liability: £6,195m
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Could fixing housing fix everything else, too? A powerful piece in today’s Guardian, by
@s8mb
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As a non-partisan campaign, we welcome news that the Government intends to trial street votes. An enormous cross-partly list has endorsed trials to see whether they can help communities address their housing and other problems. Huge thanks to all of them 1/
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NEW: roof extension rules to be relaxed as Labour aims to build higher!
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An astonishing new report on how to build more walkable, climate friendly, well-designed homes led by local communities—from
@createstreets
by
@scp_hughes
and
@bswud
—comes with broader support than we have ever seen before. Huge thanks to all who made it possible!
#Supurbia
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Here’s one example of a current London project that shows the INCREDIBLE potential for more homes through densification:
NEW - clear confirmation that this is the starting gun for a MASSIVE wave of densification across unaffordable cities like London, replacing bungalows with flats and other denser layouts!
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The language is getting stronger by the hour!
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Historic moment: the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has just declared himself a YIMBY.
Chris Mason: “Are you a YIMBY - yes in my back yard?”
Keir Starmer: “I am, yes”
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Very interesting to look at what might have changed shortly before 1950:
In a devastating new piece,
@jburnmurdoch
shows that houses are the most unaffordable since 1876 (when we were seven times poorer) 1/
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NEW: Keir Starmer vows ‘rocket booster’ plan to fast track developments in cities!
New ‘planning passports’ for building on brownfield land will mean fewer bungalows and more dense housing in high demand areas!
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And this one is even clearer:
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NEW Government publication reveals that the second staircase rules which have blocked thousands of homes had costs that exceeded the benefits by £2.7 BILLION. We call for an urgent cross-party consensus to repeal them
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Huge news on housing from Labour this morning!
‘The Labour leader will use his conference speech today to announce a “new generation” of large towns and suburbs in areas with high growth.’
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Cambridge has a desperate housing crisis which is holding it back and damaging the wider economy. Adding 150,000 well-designed homes with the right infrastructure would be incredible!
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This is effectively the replacement of the 1947-derived planning system with a new centrally set zoning system with design codes in built up areas. Incredibly powerful!
NEW: Keir Starmer vows ‘rocket booster’ plan to fast track developments in cities!
New ‘planning passports’ for building on brownfield land will mean fewer bungalows and more dense housing in high demand areas!
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Big news: Labour leader Keir Starmer says he is ‘determined’ to build houses on the green belt in the South East!
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‘British Land research shows there is 10 times as much lab space in the US city of Boston as there is Oxford, Cambridge and London combined.’
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‘The group believes a new rail line could be delivered using both private and public finance under a similar funding model used to build the new Bordeaux to Tours high-speed link on the TGV network.
Around €3.8bn of the overall €7.8bn cost of the 302km TGV line was provided by
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NEW from us today: a new detailed map of home prices per square metre across England and Wales, with a high res image that you can zoom in on!
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Astonishing graph:
new fiscal fiction just dropped
My latest on economic growth in Britain, and why Labour needs a big boost to make the sums add up:
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This seems deeply misconceived from Historic England. The builders of that very viaduct would not have hesitated to build ambitiously next to it. To push for sclerosis is to misunderstand history.
NIMBYs are at it again
Historic England are suggesting you cannot build density next to a railway line because it would obscure the view
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There’s been some confusion about the word ‘shortage’, so we thought we would explain. 1/
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NEW report from the NZ Treasury confirms the devastating truth: if you do not build more homes, growth in nominal wages just feeds straight through into higher rents, making landlords richer.
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This may go down in history as the biggest understatement ever issued by the competition authority of a G8 country
‘We didn’t know that… you’re telling us that for the very first time.’
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We’ve found it - the ultimate ‘just restrict demand’ take
England has more than enough beds!
There are >10 million beds occupied by a single person that could sleep 2 or even 3!
And those beds are typically only used for 8 hours a day! If we sleep in shifts, we could triple capacity!
(or we could just let people build houses)
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Never let them tell you density is ugly.
Housing justice is beautiful.
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We’d just like to express our sympathy for the few stalwarts who have been devotedly battling on trying to argue that supply has nothing to do with it
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NEW: Britain needs to build 550,000 homes a year to solve the housing shortage, according to Bidwells’ new figures produced in partnership with the Office for National Statistics!
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The future is YIMBY
Huge thanks to the many allies and supporters who have helped to make housing such a central issue!
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NEW - clear confirmation that this is the starting gun for a MASSIVE wave of densification across unaffordable cities like London, replacing bungalows with flats and other denser layouts!
NEW: On the eve of conference in Liverpool, Keir Starmer announces plan for ‘planning passports’ to ‘turbocharge’ housebuilding, which ‘will mean that where development proposals meet design and quality standards, the default answer will be yes, not no’
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There is no cost benefit analysis for an 18m rule for second staircases for buildings. It will block many homes and would have made many Edwardian buildings unviable. The economic damage will cost more lives than it saves. We hope government reconsiders.
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This chart is even more damning
This is an incredibly damning chart about what has happened in housing
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NEW: British homes are smaller, older and less affordable than other countries, a new report shows
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Housing secretary Michael Gove said he wants to create a second Docklands in east London along both sides of the Thames involving 65,000 new homes (£)
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Pity the long-suffering residents of Sloane Square, jammed together at five times the density of most of London. They must be desperate to escape...
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Well designed walkable urban density can help you live longer
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NEW: Keir Starmer says he will create a new class of “grey belt” land earmarked for development that has few natural or aesthetic qualities!
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🌍Location matters
The UK has failed to build where firms want to hire and pay good wages. So the housing crisis varies from place to place.
Home prices and rents are highest and most unaffordable where productivity is highest.
People want to live close to good jobs.
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Insensitive bulk and massing, not in keeping with surrounding area. Reject.
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Tolosa, Spain. A little greenery and a little effort to make pedestrians feel welcome. It doesn’t take much to create places people will want to be in.
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Good morning! Here's a useful chart of empty homes by country
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For some reason, visitors to Paris do not spend their time complaining about overshadowing and the shortage of six-lane highways
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Heartfelt thanks for the kind ideas and help from YIMBYs and friends for our first report out today!
#betterstreets
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Huge thanks to the many allies and supporters who have helped to make housing such a central issue!
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Good news - approval has been granted to replace Birmingham’s Ringway Centre with homes!
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Shocking decline in homeownership among young adults in the UK from 1990 to 2013 compared to other countries –
@jburnmurdoch
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We’ve just learned that the Eurostar was originally going to go via an underground through station at King’s Cross, and then on to the North, but that plan was abandoned:
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Worth clarifying something in this piece by
@andrewgregory
– overcrowding, not density, causes the spread of disease. Well designed density is the *solution* to overcrowding. Otherwise South Kensington and Covent Garden would be hotbeds of covid.
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New legal measures will force councils to quickly identify enough land to meet their predicted future housing needs:
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Refreshingly good decision here, but the listing system still protects too many unpopular recent buildings – with no assessment of the enormous costs for housing, society and the environment. We should fix it.
NEWS // Hugely disappointing to learn that C20's application to list Portsmouth Civic Offices has been turned down and a COI issued, paving the way for demolition.
Designed 1969-70 by Lionel Brett, Harry Teggin & David Taylor, and built 1972-76, this was the centrepiece of a
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Can someone please explain how this ever got approved?
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A brilliant new piece from
@jburnmurdoch
shows the critical importance of better rules to deliver more homes and reduce the housing crisis - why Texas has done so much better than California in getting homes built:
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Amazing map of house prices per square metre, showing how many prices are far above the cost of building more good homes.
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NEW: the Competition and Markets Authority has published its final report on housebuilding, and has concluded that too few homes are being built, which has worsened affordability!
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Outside the historic centre, most of London is just two-floor, low density, low-rise. Amazing new map from
@emu_info
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Impressive regeneration in Barking: 13,000 more homes proposed in addition to the planned 10,000.
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New Hsieh and Moretti paper concludes San Francisco jobs growth would be 689% higher in a better land use system
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When is a wood not ancient woodland? When
@NaturalEngland
says it isn’t for 13 years, 180,000 pages of planning submission and hundreds of millions of pounds in costs, and then changes its mind two weeks before the inquiry ends.
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Labour is to look at relaxing the rules on where solar panels can be added on existing homes and bringing in solar-related standards for new-build properties from next year.
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One of the biggest pieces of news here is a decisive move away from the failures of the later 20th century New Towns, which were often in places with few good jobs and sometimes even no rail ink (Skelmersdale)
Huge news on housing from Labour this morning!
‘The Labour leader will use his conference speech today to announce a “new generation” of large towns and suburbs in areas with high growth.’
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It’s almost as if having incredibly unaffordable housing wasn’t a great idea
About 700,000 UK households missed rent or mortgage payment last month
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Good summary of the problems of leapfrog, car dependent development, showing why new homes need to come with good access to jobs, transport and infrastructure
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On design,
@AngelaRayner
has promised that New Towns will ‘respect local character’. That shouldn't mean a single set of rules for the whole country - local variation and creativity should be allowed, giving different design rules in different places:
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Can’t believe this onshore wind power ever got approved
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Great article by
@clara_murray
on England’s housing problems. Worth adding that many areas with zoning (eg Manhattan) have housing shortages too: zoning only helps if you bring in the right rules. We need win-win planning reform to get a working system and fix housing.
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Impressively unobtrusive increase in floorspace by over 50% here!
Adding density in cities is important, but tends to be contentious, so it is normally wise to do it in the most unobtrusive and deferential way possible. Here is a model example from Covent Garden in 2022: two storeys added with effectively zero impact on character.
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A better world is possible
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This is an incredibly damning chart about what has happened in housing
‘The ratio of house prices to earnings in Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, is now over eight, compared with a norm of closer to four for most of the 1950s to 1990s. Just getting onto the first rung of the ladder is much harder as a result.’
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