Jos Pink

Managing Director at Thovex Ltd, building @Land_stack. I ski — a lot.

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This Monday we launched https://t.co/j2EgmRkK5L to our users (and those who got sent a link by them) and today we are launching it to everyone.

LandGPT will allow you to generate a planning statement (detailed assessment) of any piece of land in Great Britain.

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@paulpowlesland @kittyraethomp Wondering if you’ve watched Dirty Business on Channel 4 Paul? A pretty horrific eye opener on relationship between EA and water cos….

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@GIRUxGIRU @alexchristou_ The data is publicly available, every application (if refused) has a detailed decision document, including detailed reasoning. We are putting something together on this!

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@isnit0 Even if it did work, the reality is that it doesn't matter. LAs are already using AI to process and summarise local sentiment/feedback (as they should). Planning applications are already heavily objected to, a nothing burger imo.

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@Object_Zero_ @tomhfh Fundamentally they are to prevent urban sprawl, which I do think is a good thing to prevent.

We should look to have significant green belt release within local plans, after brownfield, grey belt as a second, then green belt as a third. We just need to actually do it.

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@s8mb They already have made it easier and have already made huge changes… if you speak to developers, especially larger ones, they are concerned about actually selling all the homes they could build. New housing targets and Grey Belt especially significant.

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@OpenAIDevs we are currently struggling to get our organisation authenticated through the OpenAI console to access o3 on the api — support bot can’t help, and the token doesn’t regenerate through the web app, can someone give me a hand?

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@leefer3 @russellcurtis @CPRE @CPRELondon Green belt is not the same thing as green space, so showing a map of green belt and saying there is no green space in London is ludicrous, but I assume you know that. Here is a map of just some of the green space in London — there’s a lot! — mostly parks and gardens!

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@euanmills It also doesn't even need to be a decent standard, we don't need to overthink. Just by forcing _something_ standard for data innovation will spread.

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@euanmills I would just say the same thing I've always said -- Force authorities to publish data in specific formats in specific ways (a standard) and watch the innovation happen for us....

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@TheLittleLedger @AntBreach @HCH_Hill Out of curiosity is the issue with the site here on site vs off site, or the BNG itself? I’ve always seen off site BNG (ignoring uplift of credits) as the logical and sensible way of doing it. Improving large areas of land with professional management

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@DanicaPriest @John_in_Rutland Quick link here: https://t.co/PPYpLHnkVd

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@DanicaPriest @John_in_Rutland I would implore you to take a look at the new Biodiversity Net Gain legislation that is now in force. It mandates developers to provide a 10% increase in Biodiversity based on the land that is being built on. It needs support to remain in place and for it to work well!

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@rcolvile @ChrisGiles_ Ahh, my bad I only read the first two sentences! I unfortunately can only sympathise with nerdy housing. Nerdy econ not in my wheelhouse!

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@TropicalWales1 @Tweets_of_Oscar ✅✅✅ No disagreement here with any of that

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@TropicalWales1 @Tweets_of_Oscar I agree with you re LAs/councillors and the way they operate. In a system of carrot (Local plans) and stick (planning appeals) the stick needs to be big and have teeth... which the new numbers + Grey Belt etc should allow. Planning by appeal the unfortunate short term consequence

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@TropicalWales1 @Tweets_of_Oscar It really doesn’t feel like a sticking plaster to me, it looks like seismic reform, which I’d measure by (potential atm) outcome rather than number of words changed. If you reformed the system in a ‘heavier’ way the results would certainly take longer to see than 3+ years to see

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@Tweets_of_Oscar Not sure how you can believe that to be honest

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@paulpowlesland I don’t see you mention BNG much Paul, which has the potential to do exactly what you are saying! It looks to be pissing off developers enough to suggest it’s directionally correct!