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Article from economist march 21st-27th noting: Despite war in middle east running a car and driving historically cheap. Cost of fuel is 40% of pump price; fuel efficiency of UK cars has improved two thirds over past 3 decades. Cost of buying/maintaining lower than ever. Of course, EV little impact AND BIKE/PUBLIC TRANSPORT STILL BEATS EVERYTHING (<-my opinion)
Reminder: motoring had rarely been so cheap
Via @theeconomist
Coverage in @theipaper.com of Rayner bigging up Community Land Trusts at the @coopparty.party.coop event, namechecking policy wins for our network with support from @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, but still too many barriers. inews.co.uk/news/rayner-...
The rent option has the attraction that tenants should have much lower energy bills in these homes, is there an estimate of the saving and so the net balance of cost?
Obviously personally I would have the govt spend much, much more on capital grant for new social housing!
We're working with Homebaked and other CLTs, councils and the combined authority, investors, HAs and developers in the region to find a better way to support community-led development in the region www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Homebaked CLT also continues to be failed - the council has just agreed to sell the terrace next to HCLT's property off to a private developer, after the community spent years (frustrated by council indecision) finding a better way to repurpose the empty homes.
Lots of fantastic stories from CLTs and co-operatives in this new report, I'll be attending the launch with Angela Rayner this evening. The government has barely begun to grasp the potential of these models to back the builders in our communities.
@kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social @dancardenmp.bsky.social @allymcgovern.bsky.social @paulabarkermp.bsky.social happening in your backyard!
This follows the first stage of R&D work funded by the @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social, and aims to create the delivery mechanism to achieve @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social's ambition for the social and affordable homes programme to power community-led development
We're developing a better model to do community-led development at scale in the Liverpool City Region, working with the councils and combined authority
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-events/growth-lab-developing-a-viable-model-for-a-liverpool-city-region-community-led-development-service/
Congratulations, Tom.
On the bright side, we are working to set up a financing vehicle to bring forward 1,000 new rural social rent homes through CLTs. We've had positive discussions with the National Housing Bank, and need some first investors to get the show on the road.
Calling @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social when will we get the finance for the 1,000s of CLT homes stuck at the pre-development stage? This story from Devon powerfully tells the story of why this matters, how CLTs are helping & the opportunity the government is missing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
This is a pretty mad definition of corporate lobbyist. She works in public/stakeholder engagement for a worker co-op engineering firm.
He has no power to do this.
Planning from the ground up: Neighbourhood governance and the future of development.
@tomchance.bsky.social, Community Land Trust Network
👉 www.right-here.org/planning-fro...
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Reading the court's findings on Palestine Action does leave me wondering why anyone who promotes peaceful non-violent direct action would want to support the group.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Great article. I'd particularly echo the points about core funding, longer-term grants, and funding ecosystems. We are lucky to have had some good funders in the UK doing this. The combination of the two enabled the CLT/CLH movement to make big strides in the last decade.
Incomprehensible indeed!
"The Bill adds economic interests, but still leaves out environmental interests entirely. Why?"
Big thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Baroness Freeman for making ace points in yday's debate on extending Community Right to Buy to environmental assets 1/
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
Community Led Housing Alliance publishes its 2026 Manifesto!
The CLH Alliance has published its manifesto for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary Elections, Back Scotland’s Communities to Provide More Homes. #CommunityLedHousingAlliance #CLHA sosch.org/community-le...
Reminds me of data the Heygate residents campaign unearthed finding that Met Police data indicated lower crime rates on the estate than the surrounding area. After years of people demonising the architecture as somehow being deterministically criminal.
Good to know there were no gangs before the postwar social housing estates were built!
Had it gone committee I'm v confident it would have been permitted, CLTs almost always get permission at committee because cllrs can exercise some common sense that somehow evades planning officers in the absence of clear rules-based permitting of quality intensification led by the local community.
I forgot that!
I was involved with a CLT trying to develop a small infill site offered up by the council. Post-SPD loss. Designs drawn up by local residents, lots of engagement, 100% affordable. Planners refused it on really minor design grounds and the inspector dismissed the appeal. Ridiculous.
Change of political control, the Conservatives pledged to scrap it in the run up to the last local/mayoral elections.
How can community-powered neighbourhood governance help rebuild trust in one of the most contested areas of local decision-making: planning and development?
Read our guest blog by @tomchance.bsky.social, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network.
I love this! I've often had the same thought about silly CGI of new developments. It's just missing the traffic jams.