Tom Dobson

Why did no-one tell me that the Bishop of Bath and Wells earned less than a Junior Associate at a Public Affairs Consultancy? ruined my life.

Snap!

Wow.

It’s excellent as are the digitised reports

I thought I was being brave reading a KC’s CIL opinion on a Friday evening! Well done look forward to reading it.

Longer. 2000’s stock transfer + decent homes dowry gave base to leverage. Lack of investment post 2010, + rent caps + higher risk devt. investment, + end of free money & we are where we are. New Labour get a lot of stick for low social new build but left most stock at decent homes standard.

Positive move from the Government and glad it’s happened quickly. Important to clarify the position after recent Appeal decisions to give more certainty to applicants and decision makers.

Probably Graham Potter. He keeps using a zonal marking system on corners about half a mile away which is also causing a weekly car crash.

Pepper!

Buying a proper grinder was certainly better than watching West Ham yesterday. Having said that so would sticking your fingers in it.

The ultimate form of simplify then exaggerate, all in 140/280 characters. It also promotes ‘domain experts’ who are good at social media.

Much as I love Ant haven’t we been here before with Universal Credit and Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms? I would be very cautious about throwing the whole system in the air when ministers already have many of the legal tools to add certainty anyway.

Post neo classical endogenous growth theory! (and an independent Bank of England)

To be fair their immediate challenge is to get homes which have planning permission started, while continuing to add more buildable permissions and increase build out on phased sites.

Was he in MHCLG? Reported to Rayner but in her DPM role?

Charles Dickens created Hard Times
Nile Rodgers created Good Times

Hth

The other mad thing is was he was SoS for Health and Social Security. Thats basically the Government now.

You had among the lowest injuries 22/23 and 23/24, started to go wrong last year. Arteta’s top players tend to play an awful lot of football, could be cumulative on a young squad or just bad luck

Agreed. There was also massive PFI linked to stock transfer from LAs to support decent homes. The main achievement of that Government on social housing was there was very little sub-standard stock by 2010. Then little investment since hence over-leveraged RPs and various quality scandals.

Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out

If you’re interested this is what they say about that www.gov.uk/government/p... Diversifying supply is obviously a long term thing but Spending Review made some positive progress albeit backloaded. Regardless of your views of whether it will work it is definitely different from 97 to 04

Don’t agree on housing. ‘97 to ‘04 no focus on numbers all urban taskforce/brownfield. Post Barker supply focus but more not less planning. Both periods no direct social housing instead decent homes & stock transfer. Green/grey belt entirely new as is fixed targets + £ for new build & new towns

Hara-kiri 💥 #WHUFC

True although a young person could
probably get away with it and really rile a gen x (me) or boomer in doing so.

As ever an excellent and informative blog by Simon, as is the original post linked in the article about the substantive issue in the Epping case. Simon saw the writing on the wall on x/twitter long before most of us and is the epitome of a decent human being in indecent times.

Yes particularly as increasing 234,000 to 300,000 homes would be an annual increase in housing stock going from 0.93% to about 1.2%.

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The Best Time I Pretended I Hadn’t Heard of Slavoj Žižek One weird trick to frustrate the hell out of a Marxist bro

You may well have come accross this but if not its the perfect riposte. Its also beautifully written. medium.com/the-hairpin/...

Know in the business as a ‘Paul Ince’

This was along time ago, it was peak summer season, my kids and their friends were probably too young to get anything out of it and I was disappointed about the lack of Lego (and the queues for beer). It was a memorably very bad day.

The queues Stephen, the queues!