Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.
10.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 300 🔁 49 💬 16 📌 6
YouTube video by CASTLEFACE RECORDS / DEATHGOD CORP
OSEES "SNEAKER"
Sam’s Breakfast Banger…
youtu.be/CEEQzT5vSZo?...
11.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't doubt this for a second and once you understand this, you will understand a lot about people
10.11.2025 18:07 — 👍 142 🔁 26 💬 9 📌 6
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Whilst the game might have gone here it very clearly hasn’t in Canada…
(That second goal, scored by the same chap that scored the first, won the Canadian Premier League in extra time.)
10.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
09.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 1238 🔁 286 💬 32 📌 26
4 people on stage with a large graphic behind
Prirotizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
10.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 42 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 4
Couldn't agree more with Crisis here that "the solution to homelessness is housing". But acquiring housing that already exists doesn't create more homes. It just changes the landlord.
10.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
09.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 65 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 13
Episode 152 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms.
All Around The World - Australia.
pod.co/50-shades-of...
#Planning #TownPlanning #Development #Podcasts
08.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals - Rock 'n' Roll Flu (Official Visualiser)
Sam’s Breakfast Banger…
youtu.be/bnxzP9ze5DM?...
10.11.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]
09.03.2025 09:15 — 👍 5558 🔁 2664 💬 55 📌 146
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
09.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 677 🔁 121 💬 15 📌 8
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Kitchen Disco
Peeling vegetables whilst drinking hipster IPAs and keeping half an eye on the football? There is a playlist* for that.
open.spotify.com/playlist/4jd...
*Recommended settings: shuffle and crossfade on 6.
26.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
‘Our priorities are growth and climate’
Oh rly???
09.11.2025 09:27 — 👍 82 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
Here’s the next episode in my 50 Shades podcast series about planning systems elsewhere, to coincide with World Town Planning Day.
This time I spoke to Melissa Neighbour about the Australian approach - the perfect excuse to use this photo of a snoozy koala.
open.spotify.com/episode/7BEz...
08.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Anger as £38m is spent on plane imports from Russia | The Observer
Exclusive: Officials are urgently trying to establish whether a £36m purchase of Russian aircraft breached the UK's sanctions regime
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
09.11.2025 07:33 — 👍 68 🔁 39 💬 8 📌 10
YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound
Robert Finley - "Country Boy" [Official Video]
Sam’s All-Back-To-Mine Bedtime Banger..
youtu.be/_q8AG0FLUbg?...
09.11.2025 00:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon depicting the idea that something called ‘AI peas’ is better than normal peas
If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
08.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 46 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Every decor choice that Trump makes for the White House absolutely screams mid-tier Long Island wedding banquet hall
08.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 247 🔁 32 💬 16 📌 13
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Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit
https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
08.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 1535 🔁 252 💬 270 📌 229
Were I advising the Chancellor I would suggest that a tax on the use of fireworks for domestic purposes would play well amongst the ‘just want to sit down on a Saturday teatime and watch the football’ demographic.
08.11.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy World Town Planning Day for those who celebrate!
08.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Happy World Town Planning Day, Everybody.
I can recommend two aural accompaniments to this most special day.
Firstly, episode 152 of Fifty Shades of Planning.
pod.co/50-shades-of...
Secondly, ‘Music To Plan Towns To'. The ultimate town planning-themed playlist.
open.spotify.com/playlist/73J...
08.11.2025 11:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Onion, yet again, FTW.
07.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 534 🔁 141 💬 6 📌 6
🌹 Labour city councillor for Hinksey Park, deputy leader & cabinet member for zero carbon Oxford
Unofficial bridge champion
keen on there being more houses for everyone. crunching numbers and thinking about urban problems @centreforcities.bsky.social; community unionising @acornunion.bsky.social; other bits
Senior reporter at Planning Magazine | freelance words in the Guardian, Politico, Novara Media, the Bristol Cable etc | Tips, coffees: alex.king@haymarket.com
Chief exec of the Town and Country Planning Association, and former chief exec of Campaign for National Parks.
Public Sector Planner. (Head of Planning at Leicester currently but these views are my own). My journey: Rochdale, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Nottingham, Liverpool and Leicester.
Beer, rugby league, cycling, walking, left of centre, climate concerned, dislikes grifters (a lot)
Leading Place North as Managing Partner, I support shaping the narrative of property and the built environment sectors across Northern England.
Chief Executive Royal Town Planning Institute @RTPIPlanners.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-victoria-hills-mrtpi-fice-frsa-mcmi-cmgr-6a53a29/
Cities, local growth, housing, regeneration & development. MDANT
Head of Design & Master development @HomesEngland Keen on streets, play and great places. Opinions my own.
Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk
Town and country planning is very much not a black and white endeavour.
https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning
Runner, yankees fan and local government professional.
Transport Enthusiast. Brutalist, Modernist & Art Deco Architecture Fanboy. I teach planning at the University of Reading (Any views expressed are mine and not my employers)
Managing partner and head of product at Place North.
Formerly Kirsty Butcher.
Chartered town planner and trainee theologian
Obsessive about noisy indie music. Shoegazer. Town planning ‘geek’. ‘Legacy’ MCFC fan and self-confessed ‘Bert’. Cheerful cynic. Mancunian. Overthinker, insomniac and proud dad. Old twitter refugee.
Views and typos are solely my own.
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