Richard Knight

UK Residential Delivery Director - IM Properties / IM Land. Interested in the built environment, proptech, fintech, investing.

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

Since when did @RymanStationery become associated with incredibly bad ordering experiences and customer service.

[Philip Barnes @PhilipBarnes_]

Honoured to be asked to give evidence to House of Lords Select Committee on #GreyBelt.
Tried to land my key points that a) Barratt fully supports and predicts a large supply boost, but b) that boost relies on the policy being made more flexible ref affordable housing and BLV.

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

@JamesMelville Imagine the potential market if UK companies nail dealing with net zero iniatives first.

[Andy Street @andy4wm]

The year before I was Mayor, just £38m was invested in our transport network 👎🏻

This year our budget is OVER half a £BILLION👍🏻

This shows the difference a financially competent mayor can make, delivering major extensions whilst keeping fares low - and soon to be capped ✅

[Gordon Gekko @ownsomeshares]

Pssst.

@freetrade @doddsie @v18n

[Paul Smith @Paul_SLG]

Planning applications have become much more complex over the last thirty years.

The cost of preparing the reports required is about five times more than it was in 1990 (and that’s before the application fee itself if taken into account).

[Andy Street @andy4wm]

Midlands Rail Hub is a 10th of the price of Crossrail - but can deliver the same level of transformational economic and connectivity benefits ✅

🚂Increased capacity
🙋🏼‍♂️1.6m people gaining access to HS2
👷🏻‍♂️1000s of jobs

It’s time for Govt to back us, because the WM delivers 🤝🏻

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

@jbolas What a fantastic hide away! 😀 Not jealous.... much.

[Paul Swinney @Paul_Swinney]

New report on housing. Headlines:

🏠 The UK has a housing shortage of 4.3 million homes.

🏠 This deficit stretches back to the end of WWII

🏠 The main cause for this is the Town & Country Planning Act, introduced in 1947

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

You asked, we delivered ☀️🔋

Introducing Octopus Flux, an exclusive tariff designed for solar and battery owners.

👉 https://t.co/VhpOw0KGSU

[Energy Stats UK @energystatsuk]

Hot off the press?

@OctopusEnergy "Flux" tariff for Solar and Battery owners.

https://t.co/rLou2boBrl

Flux Capacitor? 😀

Thoughts? Interesting proposition/alternative for non-EV and non-Heat Pump owners?

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

Hot off the press, our heat geniuses have found ways to slash the manufacture and install costs of heat pumps.

We’ve specially designed our very own heat pump. It'll be ready to go in the second half of the year.

Welcome to the future of home heating.

https://t.co/RCxSQSgrgz

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

@MartinSLewis I voted "no" but not because I disagree that we need to improve energy security, but that if Hinckley C costs minimum £7200 per Kw of expected energy (on last build estimates) why not look to compare that with giving finance to properties for installing solar plus battery?

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

Read something today that made absolute sense to me. Hearing calls for water companies to increase reservoir capacity, but why aren't we seeing all hands to the pump to divert resrouce to try to increase some of that capacity while the reservoirs are incredibly low?

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

@garrynewman It gets better 😁 practice makes perfect.

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

Some builders are going even further in terms of energy efficiences further reducing the annual energy costs for new build properties.

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

https://t.co/X8i5gpzk4w

With ever increasing efficiencies driven by building regulation improvements, the saving to a consumer on energy bills will continue to increase.

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

Would support the e pansion of industries in the UK and drive people into the installation of those technologies to grow what we're going to need to support the aspirations for even more new build housing per year with incredibly high efficiency ambitions

[Richard Knight @RKWulfy]

So there are starting to be calls for a review of the tidal barrage on the river Severn. I remember a figure of £15bn talked about over 10 years ago. That money would completely pay for 3,000,000 homes to be fit with rooftop solar.... More on new builds