Eleri Thomas

Urbanism and other things. Currently on a career break travelling the world. 🌏 Updates at the link below if you're curious.

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@ProfGarethT I still got better phone signal than that in most of Mongolia. Tell me there isn't a problem with UK infrastructure 😆

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

Love this fruity vignette of London's coffeehouse culture, and its reminder of the power of coffee as a tool for innovation in an age where most people were drunk most of the time

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay! Celebrate with a read of @drmatthewgreen's essay on the halcyon days of the 17th and 18th-century London coffeehouse, a haven for caffeine-fuelled debate and innovation which helped to shape the modern world: https://t.co/F4xUXk8E46

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@milski360 Would be interested to hear your conclusions too, might be worth a blog on current thoughts? Interested in how much this is a product of many years of slow growth and low productivity.

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@ProfGarethT Poor bear :(

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

The politics of America’s housing issues in one chart:

• People and politicians in blue states say they care deeply about the housing crisis and homelessness but keep blocking housing so both get worse

• Red states simply permit loads of new homes and have no housing crisis

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@the_aiju I've been doing morning pages for the last couple of months (Google it - it's a thing). Three pages of whatever you can squeeze out and that noone will ever read. Would recommend, really helps siphon off the crap.

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

⬇️ Definitely one to read ⬇️

Thank you Jason for taking the time to express the nuance and the bigger narrative of conflict here - the sadness I've felt about the conflict has only been worsened by the moral side taking on it. There's a reason this needs 15 tweets to set out.

[Jason Strelitz @strelitz_jason]

A reflection on the hope for community cohesion – A thread
We are reeling; from grief, from pain, from fear, from anger. The tragedy of what has occurred over the past few weeks has shattered many of our worlds. I go to bed each night wishing the fighting would come to end..1/17

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@lccmunicipal 👌 @Djmackin1

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@Sam_Dumitriu Great thread and points well made... though don't you think the policy proposals are still half baked? How can examination periods reduce and quality be retained without other measures, and "explore options" about legal challenge is a classic policy recommendation cop-out

[Chris @IdentityChrisis]

@MrBButterfield In preparation for attending your show on Sunday, we hosted a Treat Day

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

I only wish that capturing wider social and economic benefits in how we measure regeneration outcomes was standard practice but it's frustrated me in practice to see it's not. Lots of reasons why, including collective cultural tunnel vision, but good to see some progress at least

[Homes England @HomesEngland]

As part of our mission to drive regeneration and housing delivery, we have undertaken a comprehensive programme of research aimed at strengthening the approach to economic appraisal and the measurement of social value.

You can read the paper here - https://t.co/wp1WNXkAM3

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

A huge achievement to have this amendment to the Bill and powerful messages around the need for a strategic responsibility over securing a standard for housing - and the huge impact this has on life chances for people who can rely on secure, safe and healthy homes.

[Town & Country Planning Association @theTCPA]

Breaking news 🚨
Peers have voted in favour of #HealthyHomes for all in the #LevellingUp and Regeneration Bill!!

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@FionaEHowie @theTCPA @RTPIPlanners That's really fantastic news. Congratulations - a really well led campaign and great to be a part of @designcouncil

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@AntBreach Sure and also buildings are (sometimes) more than just bricks. I actually think there's a fair argument to DCMS managing listing. It's a cultural heritage and identity point. Question is then about how DLUHC handles listing and the weighing of factors in the planning process.

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@AntBreach See also: why bother looking after people who have become economically unsustainable?

I'm being facetious but then surely, so is this blog.

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

Newsflash: man reinvents sailing.

I can't help but laugh, but actually, I wonder how many of the innovations we need to support a climate transition already exist...?

[Doug Parr @doug_parr]

"I do predict by 2025 half the new-build ships will be ordered with wind propulsion

"The reason I'm so confident is our savings - one-and-a-half tonnes of fuel per day. Get four wings on a vessel, that's six tonnes of fuel saved"

https://t.co/xlhycQ6XxD

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@nimtimtim @lb_southwark That is very depressing though I would suspect it not flowing down to planning officers is probably the fault of a lack of clarity and prioritisation coming from politicians and senior officers and a lack of confidence lower down in picking the right battles...

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@Bn_Hay @CreativePEC @theRSAorg @UniofNewcastle Congrats Bernard, sounds really interesting!

[Eleri Thomas @elli_thomas]

@russellcurtis That's an interesting one. Absolutely the committee decision is the right one but the officers clearly didn't feel empowered to apply their judgement to go against the green belt policy position - that's the bit that needs to change!