Liz Lutgendorff

Now the working day is over you can read this:

Good time for some bin chat open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

What new towns can learn from Ebbsfleet Britain's only real new town of recent years is both a cautionary tale, and a lesson in how to do it right.

What new towns can learn from Ebbsfleet

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I wonder if it will feel as cool as all the YouTube content I have consumed

There ain’t no Podcast like an abundance podcast.

We are going May next year and my Trello board is already bursting

Nothing reminds you of the passage of time as sailing through photo based age verification with no problem.

I’m having a little book launch on 17 September. I have a really special venue that’s not normally open to the public.

There are a few tickets left: get them here if you fancy it!

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UK strikes deal with private investors to build £38bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant Government’s deal with EDF, Centrica and other backers marks end of 15-year journey to win funding for project

Lovely bit of business

A non-emergency podcast about the climate emergency Plus is the government wrecking its own planning bill? And we speak to Tom Copley about building homes in London

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA podcast:
🏠 Is the government undermining its own Planning Bill?
☀️ Why 'climate emergency' declarations require actual action
🏙️ Plus we speak to Deputy Mayor @tomcopley.bsky.social about building housing in London!

Listen!
www.abundancepod.com/p/declaring-...

Kinda fascinating that, presumably, chatbots fed with statistics about the pay gap then reinforce the pay gap as a matter of pattern recognition. And by fascinating I mean what a dumb piece of shit technology.

Marianne is in my Team 🥰

On Thursday night, we heard that government was making big concessions on its planning bill, putting lots more controls on its nature recovery plans.

I find this disappointing. And to explain why, I have to tell a story I’ve been holding off from sharing.

The tangled undergrowth of complexity Adventurers beware!

Wrote about my initial impressions of working at my new job. lizlutgendorff.substack.com/p/the-tangle...

This is going to be a big hit so make sure you pre-order!

This is incredibly annoying. Living on a non-adopted road new build, I wonder how much of this might emerge as problem for the future.

James and I keep joking we’ll do a 7-part series on HS2 on the pod, but honestly 100 wouldn’t be enough. You’d barely fit Euston in that.

World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S. competitiveness on next-generation reactors.

At least some good things are happening in the policy world.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/c...

I feel this deep on my bones for digital projects as well (especially in my new job) 😩

Really interesting post from Martin! I think this paragraph is the best way to reconcile stats with subjective feelings – it's not that things haven't got better, it's that the public's expectations have raised.

Five small signs of progress... and what Skegness can teach us about infrastructure Plus a trip to Old Oak Common station and a chat with an MP from Britain's industrial heartland

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA podcast!

💧 New reservoirs! And four other signs of progress
🚄 Some *good* HS2 news
☀️ How infrastructure made and broke Skegness
🏠 Plus we speak to @antoniabance.bsky.social about housing, industrial policy and more

www.abundancepod.com/p/five-small...

The other good thing about removing the requirement for planning consent for heat pumps within 1m of a neighbouring property is that it takes a burden off over-stretched planning authorities. A relatively small one, but helpful none the less.

Wife: so, I tried to return X for repair but Royal Mail won't accept the package as they say computer doesn't recognise address. What do I do?

Me: well, you start with a campaign to bring the Postcode Address File back into public sector & then you redesign the data flows & then...

Wife: *sigh*

Crypto may be eating up the U.S. political system but back in the real word its use by regular folks is dropping. Fed data shows the 8 percent of adults who used cryptocurrency either as money or investment last year is down from 12% in 2021. Data also shows almost no use as actual money.

Arrived a bit early for my train.

Boo and Hashtag are so far quite flexible, except Boo hates anything with shrimp. Looks at me with sad eyes and walks away. Like I should know better.

From tolls to charity: Exhibition traces wealth and legacy of the City Bridge Foundation An 800-year-old document leasing a shop on London Bridge is currently on display in the City of London’s Guildhall as part of an exhibition about the history of the trust fund that manages the City’s ...

An 800-year-old document leasing a shop on London Bridge is currently on display in the City of London’s Guildhall as part of an exhibition about the history of the trust fund that manages the City’s bridges.

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I can assure you, it is possible.

I have a very sunburned forehead from all the sun in Lincolnshire