Susannah Walker

Could not agree more

Actually what, MHCLG?

Well exactly

"The NPPF is a planning document. It sets out guidelines for housebuilding and planning in England. "The VAWG strategy is about protecting women and girls from violence and misogyny. "It's unclear as to why anyone would expect the two things to be combined and therefore difficult to respond directly to the criticism."

The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say.

Where's my pitchfork...

*applauds*

It's a bit of a niche issue that's only just hitting the mainstream, so always worth just sending her a line to check.

If you are in the UK the. Please send an email to the NPPF. Template here www.inherplace.co.uk/post/plannin...

@50shadesofplanning.bsky.social @planningshit.bsky.social

England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

And here is the Guardian report

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More seriously, we need as many people as possible to tell the MHCLG that they are cloth-eared twits. There is a template for that here and please do copy in your own MP:

www.inherplace.co.uk/post/plannin...

"The NPPF is a planning document. It sets out guidelines for housebuilding and planning in England. "The VAWG strategy is about protecting women and girls from violence and misogyny. "It's unclear as to why anyone would expect the two things to be combined and therefore difficult to respond directly to the criticism."

The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say.

Where's my pitchfork...

The aim is to have a longer and more technical version up there in the next few days, for planners and specialists who want to go in all guns blazing.

The next step is to alert as many organisations working in #VAWG as we can, so that they too can respond.

Or the worlds worst cocktail

England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

This, 40 yrs after the Women’s Design Forum set out the direct connection between women’s safety and planning, house, street, public space design, a Ministry spokesperson says: [It is] ‘unclear as to why anyone would expect the two things to be combined”. 😳
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#VAWG and #NPFF need to get together urgently PLEEEEASE. This is a chance in a generation to improve women and children’s experience of the built environment @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social

Yes and please can everyone respond to the consultation on the NPPF and copy in your MP too. There’s details on how to do this on the In Her Place website under news

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

we have a contender for most stupid response by Ministry spokesperson in living memory...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not just class but ethnicity, I think, plays a big part in this, particularly for girls.

He is one of my heroes anyway, and all the more so today.

Me too

Generate podcast??? Why the fuck is Adobe even giving me this option?? The document I have open is a receipt from the printers

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live."

That's a death threat.

If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

Edwin Morgan's poem 'Grendel', in which he voices the creature from Beowulf, has thrilling opening lines:

It is being nearly human
gives me this spectacular darkness.
The light does not know what to do with me.

Who funds NATO budget ⬇️

Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

A message from Greenland…

This is great and proves a couple of things. One is that making things better is not always rocket science, and that there is often no substitute for just going out, taking a look and talking to local people.

I posted about #IWD2026

Bluesky peeps taught me the corporate '.com' site is bull****, unconnected to the UN or feminist movement, they unilaterally decide a theme (different to the UNWomen's campaign)

www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

www.kcl.ac.uk/internationa...

Avoid the Give to Gain campaign

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