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“You should be able to go out the front door, and know that there are local amenities to walk to, and ‘turn up and go’ public transport. The current planning system is not delivering this vision.” great reporting from Harriet Grant #infrastructurefirst theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

"About 60% of vet practices in UK are owned by large companies, up from 10% in 2013, about 1,500 of 5,000 practices acquired by 6 groups." #Financialisation of everything: a few profit and the rest of us, including animals, pay thetimes.com/business-money…

Going to university, borrowing £50,000 or more for the privilege, and paying it back through an 8% graduate tax for 30/40 years is supposed to lead to a higher income bit.ly/4l0nqle not for these 600,000 who are on Universal Credit! (NB it costs a lot less in Scotland)

The #NFU has announced it is starting a new programme that will work with scientists to help farmers measure the pollution in the waterways near their farms, so they can take steps to improve water quality and see progress. theguardian.com/environment/20…

💥 Rural panic over tax reform. Family farms & rural businesses are halting millions in planned investment, according to a countryside business body farminguk.com/news/tax-refor…

There is substantial unmet demand for social care – which has pushed the burden onto unpaid carers. At the same time, spending in England on services that support unpaid carers, including respite care, has fallen by nearly a third.

Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures bbc.in/45lSFmh

More evidence of rising inflation from ⁦The British Retail Consortium⁩ inflation survey with food prices adding to the surge. CPI inflation set to hit 3.8pc next month and exceed 4pc in the autumn. NO case for a rate cut in August if #MPC respects its inflation mandate. share.google/dtI393mu7xNZyT…

Seems sensible Disused railway land to be redeveloped to build 40,000 new homes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Raw sewage. Off-the-scale pollutants. One councillor is testing river water himself - because the authorities won't. This isn't just local. Charles Ridler reports. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/a-…

Going nowhere very much, slowly. New homes registered in the three months to July are 4% up on same period last year. The number completed is 5% down. One of the five years in which Labour has promised to build 1.5m homes has now gone.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: River Action launches legal challenge over Government’s failure to explain when it will take action on Thames Water 👉riveractionuk.com/news/river-act… Despite repeated lawbreaking and record levels of pollution, the Government still won’t say when it will use its

Nearly half of 19-29 year olds in the UK now live with their parents. In 2023–24, 51 per cent of 19–29-year-olds lived at home, up 10 percentage points since 1994–95. Take a look at how this has changed over time here ➡️ buff.ly/5TAPyDv

Today’s government announcement about building 40k homes on ‘unused’ rail land is essentially what was announced in March - same number, 425 homes, mentioned for Cambridge 👇

🏘️ Dandara has submitted plans for a 272-home scheme in Great Dunmow, Essex, on a 27.8-acre former farmland site near the Flitch Way. Cala Homes is already building 108 homes next door. More details: housingtoday.co.uk/news/dandara-s…

40k homes on Network Rail land sounds good as a headline. Though much like the "affordable" housing funds allocated under this govt, read into it and it's stretched out over decade. It's nowhere near ambitious enough given the housing crises and population growth we now see.

Terrific piece. Reminds me of this piece of YouGov polling: we all think the past was better, we just can't agree on when

It is remarkable that the Building Safety Regulator is rejecting 70% of applications. For comparison, the planning system rejects around 10% of applications, including on large sites. This is because delays are very costly for developers, so they try extremely hard to be

🔴 BREAKING: All outbound UK flights grounded as air traffic control fails trib.al/9fZb6GB

Breaking news: The emergency limits on the air space around London come at a peak travel time, as holidaymakers leave the UK for their annual foreign holidays. on.ft.com/4l5zwcS