Development Corporations will help aid development but no panacea.
Ebbsfleet DC just revealed latest annual starts. Despite the DC and transport links such as HS1, only a little more than 200 homes started across the year.
Worse than 2020/21. 75 yrs to complete at that rate
*BBC Radio 4 voice*
.
In 1893 the town of Pudsey built its grand Liberal Club. By 2026, the word Liberal had eroded to almost nothing. Today, on our walk into Leeds, we ponder what this means for liberalism today and discuss what comes next,...
The erosion of the graduate premium everywhere in Britain except for London, where housing eats up most of the premium anyway, means that young people are probably right to have got less positive about university. But what will they do instead? https://t.co/M6EjUlEVV3
the obit is too polite to say this but of course you'll struggle to attract job ads if the front half of the paper is dedicated to insulting and threatening the job candidates and indeed the clients.
interesting obit of Guardian exec Caroline Marsland reveals something...you know how so many horrific columnists used to whine all the time about the Guardian job ads?
@yorksranter "The first trains between Old Oak Common in west London and Birmingham Curzon Street will now start running between 2036 and 2039, with the full railway running from London Euston to join the west coast mainline in Staffordshire scheduled to be completed between 2040 and 2043."
Leeds is looking lovely today. Light rail conference - lots of speakers kept saying we need to work harder on our business cases - felt like heckling "doesn't matter how hard you work - Treasury will tell you to piss off".
@yorksranter I would guess that Victoria Plumb was a poor joke and then Victorian Plumbing was then chosen coincidentally for entirely legitimate business reasons