New homes near Plumstead station. First residents now moving in.
Woolwich Barracks' redevelopment moving forward including almost 2,000 homes as area plan set to be agreed.
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/03/13/w...
Agree s106 model doesn't work and TCPA needs reforming/change
2/2 2/2 Recently Reeves' pick for head of Competition and Market Authority let off volume builders from probe into price collusion. Token payment and it goes away. Speaks volumes.
Yep. Until relatively recently there were many small and medium size developers.
Now the sector focused in hands of few volume builders.
A key problem isn't private building. It's how industry consolidated into ever fewer hands.
It should be both. Public sector should be enabled and financed to build enough masse.
Private sector should be able to build en masse.
Not either/or. When this country saw mass housebuilding growth both sectors were going great guns.
Woolwich Barracks' redevelopment moving forward including almost 2,000 homes as area plan set to be agreed.
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/03/13/w...
That corner building never ceases to amaze at how bad it is.
For the love of god would a splash of colour kill them?
Dreary grey towers beside London Bridge station against a dreary grey sky.
Stop the grey plague!
Plans to knock down a 180-year-old Woolwich town centre pub rejected for the second time www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/03/12/w...
Public-private model of developing public land has been a failure in recent decades. Numerous examples.
Mayor Kahn again today piping up pushing it. Full believer of failed Treasury orthodoxy.
Labour aren't solving housing problems are they? Nowhere near. It's New Labour v2 at best
I'd take that too.
Can't have breakfast in pants in this country as too bloody cold most of the time
If I ever win the lottery this is where I'd buy a place. Backstreets of Greenwich. Gorgeous
Plans to knock down a 180-year-old Woolwich town centre pub rejected for the second time www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/03/12/w...
A look at how construction is shaping up on new cycle lane between Woolwich and Charlton
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/03/10/a...
2/2 Nowhere have I said social/public housing is a silver bullet. We also need a big, big increase in private building.
Even with planning reform, the current economic situation prevents it.
In short term bodies like TfL with land can be boosted. Supports construction sector in private downturn
1. It's the most immediate measure for this country at time. Private sector is not building needed levels anytime soon
2. Approaching £40bn annually on housing benefit and £4bn a year on temp housing a better way to spend?
3. TCPA reform alone is not solving this issue on short to mid term
The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.
Very pleased to see some pickup for our press release on this: Indian Railways ~100% electrification has massively insulated them against oil price shocks.
Apparently this point has now been picked up in a speech by PM Modi today!
They're still banging on about public private partnerships on public land. Won't support public bodies building themselves.
And when the private part of that partnership won't build? More stagnation. Same as last few decades.
Latest reason private sector won't build enough homes will be rising interest rates and mortgages.
Until gov allow public bodies to build big, planning reform isn't going to cut it.
Counter cyclical support for construction industry until private sector improves. Govt won't do it
Spending on housing is currently caught in a trap, with a huge (ballooning) housing benefit bill and temporary accommodation bill. Building many more social rent homes would drastically cut both these bills. This idea is to forgo future tax income to inject more money to development now
The due diligence report at the time showed he lied. Showed his dodgy business interests and investigations. Starmer still appointed him. It was never a good appointment.
He's been dodgy as fuck for decades. He was known as dodgy as fuck at the time.
Of course, the US ambassador is just like every other post.
Jesus, a pathetic argument even from the most brain dead.
Will it? Again shows the character of Mandelson which was widely known and Starmer still appointed him, despite a thousand warning signs.
Okay, but the problem here was not "the process" it was that *you* ignored the process in favour of parachuting in your preferred man? Can't "overhaul" your way out of your own blindspots. You can change whatever you want but that ain't going to do squat if you just ignore the rules.
Darren Jones says the govt agreed to pay Peter Mandelson around £75,000 for being sacked but that Keir Starmer has since said he should return the cash.
Maybe the govt shouldn't have paid it in the first place?
The due diligence report points out that in *2014*, Mandelson accepted a role as a "founding citizen" of an ocean conservation group alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, funded by Epstein
Mandelson served as a non-executive director of the Russian conglomerate Sistema until June 2017. I.e. After Russia's 2014 invasion and occupation of Crimea.
Sistema held a majority stake in RTI, a defense technology firm producing radar systems for Russia’s missile early warning system.
