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"Brexit regret has reached record levels. Only 9% of Britons now consider Brexit more of a success than a failure." ... These are devastating numbers for the Brexit camp, and they DEMAND a response from all sensible MPs.
#BrexitHasFailed #SMNow
https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-poll-suggests-just-9-of-britons-think-decision-to-leave-european-union-more-of-a-success-than-failure-12887197
Brexit: Poll suggests just 9% of Britons think decision to leave European Union more of a success than failure

Sky

I think Dan Rainey is right, if we are to build more (and better) #housing, then the two bed #terracehouse is an excellent model for this expansion.

These houses remain attractive to everyone as early homes, except #builders who are obsessed with building detached houses with more bedrooms.

Of course, the small/medium sized terrace was a staple of #socialhousing & so their relative decline in house building is not surprising, but the revival of this size dwelling, would be beneficial IMO.

@ChrisMayLA6 Not just as ‘early’ homes. Boomers need somewhere to downsize into but this constant building of 4 bedroom/3 bathroom houses isn’t helping.

Electric bicycles 🔋 🚲 in Denver 🇺🇸 are replacing an estimated 100,000 vehicle miles per week.

This is after cash incentives towards e-bike purchasing were introduced.

Tiny EVs take hold in cities worldwide and are on track to rule future urban mobility👇👇

Rail passengers in England could lose wifi access amid cost cuts

DfT tells operators wifi is low priority for travellers and they need to justify business case for it

The Guardian
Les #artistes du #métal...
Une magnifique sculpture en métal de GEORGE Leontiev BALABANOV, à découvrir en Bulgarie. J'adore...
The #artists of #metal...
A magnificent metal sculpture by GEORGE Leontiev BALABANOV, to be discovered in Bulgaria. I adore...
By Lumière de l'Atelier
#Style #Stil #Art #Kunst #Treppe #Artist #photography #photo #architecture
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

The myth of 'Affordable' housing and how it houses the middle class. Housing Associations are losing their original purpose of providing decent warm self contained housing for the working class.

#Housing #SocialHousing

https://housingview.co.uk/2023/05/24/the-gentrification-of-social-housing/

The gentrification of social housing

In this guest post, former Chief Executive of Midland Heart, Tom Murtha, looks at whether social housing providers have lost their core values.

Housing View

And now all the routes (inc. the next 3 days) between tomorrow and the end of June are mapped 🎉

Zoomable version
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-summer-2023-extra-days_919882#7/46.958/8.443

64 trains
10800 km

24 rail borders crossed - 18 by train and 6 by bike

12 are borders I have not yet been... (it's getting harder to go to new ones!)

Events in Barcelona (2 June) and Paris (8 June, am), and likely Brussels (8 June, pm)

Timetable for next 3 days
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ga6BjV8nyqnhibJ_SjpI5eeTgJEfoUhIOqqwunGTgvw/edit#gid=310317430

Timetable for the rest
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ga6BjV8nyqnhibJ_SjpI5eeTgJEfoUhIOqqwunGTgvw/edit#gid=768792452

Do say hello en route!

#CrossBorderRail Summer 2023 Extra Days - uMap

Green Belts. Back in the political spotlight again. Latest blog on the concept of community-led urban exception sites.

https://placestrategy.substack.com/p/green-belts-an-exception-to-the-rule

#community #housing #greenbelts #affordablehomes

Green Belts: an exception to the rule?

Could 'community-led urban exception sites' be another route to housing affordability

Place Strategy