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It was Parklife this weekend and it seems to have gone off without any problems. It does though place a lot of restrictions on residents (including me) so it’s good to see this fund in place. However, none of these project support those continuities around the park directly

It’s now a month until the oasis gigs but the fences (and there are a lot of them) won’t be taken down just to be put up again. So that’s 2 months of partial use. Also it’ll be interesting to see if the city council enforce the remediation works to get the park back up to scratch

The eventification (i.e. event driven commodification) of public parks is not just an issue in London; it is affecting parks in Manchester, in Newcastle, in Bristol, in Liverpool, and in Sheffield.

The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development 🏛️ 📅 07–08 July 2025 📍 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health The conference will return to London in 2025 to place Chinese cities in a changing world and engage with a wider urban studies community. 🔗 Register: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/event…

🇵🇹 Guimarães, #EUGreenCapital 2026, is leading the way in urban cooling! Learn how the city's Green Radial Strategy ♻️ aims to combat historic heatwaves and reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2030, all while preserving the city's rich heritage. 👉kont.ly/a8efdb8d

Improving Manchester tram faces 2 structural challenges: 1. Path dependence—sprawling and low density evolving with car dominance makes changes tough; 2. Governance & funding—tram needs to be more than transport, using value capture, to drive development & equity. Campaign for Better Transport

I'm super proud of this as it's been 2+ years in the making! Changing from individual, one off grants to a big continuous open fund took lots of unsexy change management in the background. I'm super proud of my team & the others that got this set up. Now, apply for those grants!

London has any number of flaws - housing, costs, jobs, wages but it does know how to do green infrastructure. Yes I know this is high end GI but on a sunny day it looks splendid and makes a nice walk to the Camley Street Nature Reserve

New National Park decision - really interesting outcome. Whilst conservation & landscape protection are critical there are always downsides. It’s good that they had a consultation and have listened - is a 54/46 split sufficient though to make this decision gov.scot/news/new-natio…

Scotland could soon make history as the first UK nation to criminalise #ecocide aka severe, reckless harm to nature. In our latest blog, Jodie Bettis from the The Open University discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A

I’ve just been on the castlefield viaduct for the first time in a while and it’s growing on me. Maybe it was the drizzle and mix of green and industrial architecture that lightened my mood. It could work as a connective route but is it a park

I’ll be taking part in this event next week - if you’re interested in how green infrastructure can help create sustainable communities: How can we build infrastructure fit for the future? This might be for you. events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:gc…

I was in Cambridge and saw this building site. It used to be - I think - a timber merchants. So will it be big enough to be a neighbourhood and if your baseline for biodiversity was potentially 0% is that 280% increase meaningful. It so high density though so that’s good

I was talking to a friend about proportionality and biodiversity the other day. They have a wildlife focussed garden and it’s great but we discussed is it enough if not everyone is going the same. Here at work we’re doing small interventions. But how can we scale these up!

Ian Mell Because ownership is fragmented, landscape-scale improvements will involve many different organisations and people. Culture change can happen. Thank you for showing others what can be done.

Ian Mell Good work 👍 Re scaling up, surely has to be government led? Via planning system & Local Authorities themselves managing all public land (Biodiversity Duty onus on them already exists). That, alongside education & promotion to the general public to follow suit.

We’ve also been nominated to the Rural Planning Futures book led by Mark Scott at UCD and based on the project we did for the RTPI (led by John Sturzaker) that I contributed to. So a good day for PPEM all round. rtpi.org.uk/events-trainin…

Some great news today here in the Planning, Property & Environmental Management department at Manchester. Phil Black and colleagues have been nominated for the RTPI Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence rtpi.org.uk/events-trainin…

The Special Trees of Brighton and Hove have never looked so special 🤩 ticl.me/special-trees-… 🏆🌳 Brighton & Hove City Council B&HGreenspacesforum

I’ve not been in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for a while but the phased residential and development of new GI and urban nature seems to be working well. New neighbourhoods, a vibrant atmosphere and a people centred approach to design.