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This is an amazing dataset, so much in here to explore

Sadly this is holed beneath the waterline by an utter failure to grasp basic planning. “Exclusive analysis … shows … the top 10 housebuilders … are sitting on 700,000 plots, many of which have planning permission.” The last part of this sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Good piece on the employer/ee compromise for a long term WFH balance. It has a US angle but in the tight UK labour market the same Qs are being asked. The implications for mid-quality office space locations might be significant. bbc.com/worklife/artic…

Interesting, do people have an opinion on whether this is primarily due to talent, co-location, regulation/ access to regulators or where inventors and spin outs happen to be from?

The @lichfieldsuk analysis of the impact of NPPF changes on housing supply falls features in this piece by Kiran Stacey on DLUHC’s £1.9bn underspend on housing theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

Pleased to see The Economist’s Blighty newsletter mine the @lichfieldsuk blog to examine allegations of housebuilder land hoarding. view.e.economist.com/?qs=95d9b1d4ef…. Original blog here: lichfields.uk/blog/2023/july…

Some new analysis by Lichfields for the @theLPDF projects just 25% of LPAs will have an up-to-date Local Plan under five years old by end of 2025, endorsing Select Committee findings on the harmful effect of policy hiatus since 2020. Full report here: lpdf.co.uk/wx-uploads/fil…

Interview in The Telegraph with the Secretary of State kicks off preparations for another #planningreformday on Monday. Beneath the headlines, suspect #planoraks will have lots of detail to get stuck into telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…

New Lichfields blog by Edward Clarke (with obligatory LURB-related pun title) reviewing the Government’s consultation proposals on streamlining local plan making referring back to recent research for Land, Planning and Development Federation on projected plan coverage: lichfields.uk/blog/2023/july…

Revealed preferences vs survey data in action, great fact Tom Forth !

The Lichfields blogs covering last week's planning announcements, so far... A look at what is new within the announcements, by Sean Farrissey, Paddy Hynes Edward Clarke and Jennie Baker: lichfields.uk/blog/2023/july…

Congratulations to the Planning Practitioner Award  finalists #RTPIResearchAwards 🌟 Christopher Schiele & Catriona Fraser | Turley 🌟 Louise Thomas & Geoff Noble | Allies and Morrison 🌟 Martin Taylor | Lichfields 🌟 Kim Power (she/her) | Arup|  University of Liverpool | UN Development

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.

Fact of the day: no legislation since 2011 has received more amendments in the House of Lords than the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill. Here's the picture since 1999, when the Public Bill statistics began:

Updated NPPF just published. No, not that one. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

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The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened —how fast people on bikes “appeared” —once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

Wow, fascinating synopsis

This is not going to be the quiet Autumn Statement we were promised. Sigh. Once we're over the disappointment full Resolution Foundation analysis will follow after the Chancellor speaks at 12.30