Planning reform works!

The oak tree that supposedly marks the centre of England has a sign next to it opposing a new solar farm development.

The chart is by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, the typos are all my own.

Minneapolis build more homes than other mid-Western towns and saw prices fall by comparison. Building more homes really does work.

This is a great piece of research by Lichfields looking at how long it will be before the proposed new housing targets start to translate into more new homes being built - and what that means for delivering 1.5m new homes over the next 5 years. lichfields.uk/blog/2024/se...

Making the transition: a trajectory for planning and delivery of housing under the proposed NPPF

A comparison of median housing costs to median household incomes in the US and UK. (From @statisticurban, in The Other Place, who doesn’t seem to have an account here.)

Saturday night. In a school hall. Playing bingo.

On 3rd October I'll be talking design codes at the Urban Design Learning event "The National Policy Picture". Looking at the role of coding in planning policy set out in the consultation draft NPPF plus beauty and some other design related changes (if I have time!)

You could change “the north” to “London” and repurpose that.

I've read that the proposed new standard method (SM) weights housing supply too much towards the North. When the SM first arrived in 2018 it slashed Northern targets. Here's one example of a plan that was quickly reviewed to lock-in lower targets. The new SM just rewinds that.