Neil Murphy

‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors

This is absolutely grim, condemning whole communities to isolation and car reliance – we can do so much better than this: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

27.07.2025 06:38 — 👍 52    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 3

Yes it’s terrible. In my neck of the woods a remarkable number of “charities” (nonprofit of course but with 3 employees and a CEO on £300k p.a.) do very well out of providing ‘sheltered housing’ along these lines, scraping the Local Housing Allowance barrel.

23.07.2025 22:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That would be funny if it wasn’t so appalling.

Honestly it’s a total lottery isn’t it.

Imagine if financial services were regulated like land use is.

23.07.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ooh, some of us are here. Overbearing, out of character, looming? (Obvs it’s none of those things)

23.07.2025 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I go to lengths to avoid them. From Newcastle it’s only really Sheffield/Derby/Birmingham where there isn’t an OK route via London or alternative operators.

10.07.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really awful trains too. Smelly, uncomfortable and Faraday cages so tethering to your phone doesn’t work 👎

10.07.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don’t use it much and that page reminds me why

19.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Link please

19.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On the former Agora site on Church Street. New build but strongly informed by the character of the Victorian surroundings.

31.10.2024 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is a lovely cohousing project, Angel Yard, in Norwich which should be under construction in Spring/Summer 2025. 34 dual-aspect homes on a 0.2 hectare site with no private parking.

31.10.2024 20:25 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I will post more stuff on TOWN projects coming soon in the next few days.

31.10.2024 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a project in Wolverton, Milton Keynes, which we are developing with the City Council and will hopefully be on site early next year after a *lot* of technical and other challenges have been overcome.

31.10.2024 20:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Right then, first post after signing up ages ago and lurking for a bit. So much nicer here than twitter. So this is Marmalade Lane, which my company TOWN (and many collaborators) finished about five years ago. More on this and other projects to come, as well as general urbanism and politics snark.

31.10.2024 20:07 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0