Alexis Edwards

Perhaps inertia is the path of least resistance for those at the top

The Square and Compass, Purbeck

There are a fair few commuters living on the Isle of Purbeck working in BCP. The 45min detour is a pain for them when the ferry’s out of action due to being serviced. It is great to cross on a bike for a tour and a pint in Corfe Castle

The toll rate is a local source of contention and everyone is awaiting the outcome of latest Planning Inquiry to put up the prices.

Feel that pain. Eldest appeared during a call plugged electric guitar in and started playing on full volume. Then youngest suffering from fomo joined in on the piano having set it to organ mode.

Life on the Front Line III

Do you work in the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning?

If so I would be grateful if you could take a few moments to have a read of this (and even more grateful if you would then share it as widely as possible).

samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2025/07/life...

So much for locally led solutions

The whole NN saga is a farce. Massive failure on the part of Defra, to the point you begin to think it’s deliberate

Excellent thoughts as always Sam. I would say that some of the delays are self inflicted by applicants failing to provide information in a timely fashion eg not supplying title plans for finalise a S106. But outcome of cost cutting is at play for most councils with the delays to central processes

The correct saying is everyone wants to draw the map but no one wants to be a devolver

You can’t be suggesting that 2cm is insufficient cover for telecoms cables…..

They were probably forced to choose the cheapest as their internal processes likely required them to go with the Most Economically Advantageous Tender.

Le petit et le grand bassin de baignade dans la Seine en face de la BNF de part et d’autre de la passerelle Simone de Beaubourg Ils ne communiquent pas ensemble comme le montre la troisième photo.

Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.

New drawing: Hire bike

Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Fuel duty freeze would like a word

It cuts both ways. Had lots of cases where a developer is looking to secure portfolio position via a speculative outline application with limited details supplied eg no clarity on unit numbers, parking/traffic impact etc so you can’t give a clear answer on mitigation.

That like overhead electrification would require a rolling year on year budget which is impossible/illegal/immoral

The very engaged are already signed up by reading site notices so it’s likely just a substitution of the method of notification.

The timetable is tough once you formally start the process, but there’s an huge incentive to never start in the first place. It becomes even easier to blame the gov for any development that does get allowed at appeal whilst avoiding the pain of allocating sites.

Water, sewage, electricity, construction materials/staff and so the list grows of problems to delivering ever larger housing numbers.

a man with a beard is holding a sword with the words shall not written below him Alt: Gandalf the Grey is holding a sword with the words shall not written below him

Couldn’t help thinking of Planning Inspectors as Gandalf the Grey

If you then do Red October, Crimson Tide, and K-19 you’ll have done the Cold War sub hat-trick.

a man says give me a ping vasily Alt: a man says give me a ping vasily

More so than The Rock, and if Red Dawn is acceptable then rogue soviet submariners have to be

When is Red October happening?

It’s a real policy paper

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Try these:

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Paging @roadscholar.bsky.social

It’ll be great if an MP took an interest in getting the control of advertisements regs amended

VLR is an approach to dodge the cost issue with current regime approach to utilities, and to avoid a TWAO

Would a couple of modal filters do the job to allow access at the top as far as the square/triangle but stop people carrying on all the way down Parr Street