Curtis Howard

Cabinet Member for Planning & Regeneration and councillor for Long Eaton Central on @ErewashBC

[createstreets @createstreets]

... Brilliantly, Coventry City Council has found a way round the mess (as @djjmilner showed for @CapX here) but....

https://t.co/GozaCs6dn8

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

Same with neighbourhood wardens - in 2015 there were more than a dozen, each assigned to their own area, dealing with flytipping, graffiti, etc.

By the time we took control of Erewash in 2023, there were just three wardens. More responsibility, fewer resources, less efficient

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

At the start of the 2010s, Erewash Borough Council had 6 street cleaning vehicles and a separate, on-foot town centre sweeping team

After 2019, this was cut down to just two street cleaning vehicles - so fewer regular routes, and no dedicated town centre sweeping

[Ed West @edwest]

Why is Britain COVERED in RUBBISH?

[Jon Neale @JonNeale]

Fixed it for ya

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

Out enforcing a clean-up order on the old Wigfalls building in Ilkeston this afternoon - left empty for nearly thirty years.

Owner didn’t even bother to respond to our legal notice, so the council is going to do the necessary works instead - and take him court for the bill!

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

Meanwhile in Erewash:

➡️ Reform run Derbyshire County Council? ⬆️ 4.9%

🌹 Labour run Erewash Borough Council? 🥶 0.0%

[Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 @Mike_Fabricant]

Got my Council Tax Bill
❌ Staffordshire County (Reform)
UP 3.9%
❌ Lichfield City (Labour)
UP 6.0%
✅ Lichfield District (Conservative)
UP 1.9% below inflation

Says it all

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Alarming thread on the govt's new advisor on Planning and Infrastructure reform, Catherine Howard.

She seems to have supported the environmental lobby's campaign against Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which successfully watered down the best part of it.

[Ant Breach @AntBreach]

The Government is considering a second planning bill - if they are serious about meeting their target of 1.5 million new homes, they should use it to introduce a new flexible zoning system:

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

14,000 families on the housing waiting list in her local authority. They just don't care.

[w////am 🐝 @willuminare]

“if you are thinking of investing in our communities think again” nice one 👍

[Issy Waite @issywaite66]

Great to be at East Mids Labour Conference today, chairing a panel for @yimbylabour 🏡

Thanks so much to @rosie_wrighting and @CurtisHowardLEC for joining, it was a really insightful discussion!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay says a third runway at Heathrow would be "incredibly irresponsible in the midst of a climate emergency"

Starmer: "I'm not going to take lectures from those who talk about climate change but oppose vital renewable infrastructure" #PMQs

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

@CharlotteCymru @OliJProbertHill None in Yorkshire since the 1960s! None in the Midlands in nearly a century!

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

This goes to the heart of the deep problem with British planning, development & governance culture. Unclear quality asks. Totally dependent on consultants & lawyers on high day rates. Nothing is clear and nothing is ever anyone’s fault. Natural England demand mitigation & …

[Anya Martin @AnyaM8_]

So much to break down here

"We simply have to comply with the law"... but the law didn't say anything specific, they were simply told "this won't do" by a Quango and had to invent their own mitigation 1/n

[Dan Tomlinson MP @Dan4Barnet]

Why can’t Britain build anything anymore?

The news this week of the £100m ‘bat tunnel’ gave us some clues.

Here’s the story of this tunnel, which has been 12 years in the making, and some thoughts on what it tells us

[Paul Smith @Paul_SLG]

Here’s a Simon Jenkins housing column that makes sense - because it’s about him, rather than by him.

(It’s by @JonnElledge)

https://t.co/wj0GKWoXPa

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Yesterday we secured £63 billion of investment to provide almost 38,000 jobs.

Today we announced half a billion pounds extra investment for housing.

We are delivering on our promise of change.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will today promise to get rid of 'needless regulation' that blocks investment in the UK

"Where it is stopping us building the homes, the data centres, warehouses, grid connectors, roads, trainlines, you name it then mark my words – we will get rid of it."

[Curtis Howard @CurtisHowardLEC]

@willuminare every time I think “this could not possibly get more miserable” - it does!