Alex
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Unless you are buying a 5 bed detached on one of these developments for £750k plus not sure how those heat pumps will fit into the tiny new builds without limiting living space even more than they already do.
Britons are split on the construction of new towns in principle, but tend to oppose them being built near them, as ministers unveil seven areas to be developed as part of its new town scheme In the UK Support: 40% Oppose: 37% Near your local area Support: 31% Oppose: 49%
You can tell who has a good mind for medieval warfare based on who they put in their top 5 best asoiaf generals in the main series.
Charlie Kirk’s longtime mentor has died following a bizarre pickleball accident. trib.al/0IVpxOf
imagine hopping on this train to go from Budapest-Keleti to Budapest-Nyugati (2.4 km distance)
Ministers set to order HS2 to consider slower trains to save billions ft.trib.al/Zoi36KX
The Danish social democrats are so popular that they are polling with North-Korean style percentages. European Patriots keep winning 🇪🇺
🚨Tempsford has been confirmed as a new town! 40,000 homes are set to be built around a new station at the intersection of the East Coast Mainline and East West Rail – linking Tempsford’s new residents to good jobs in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes 🚆 Tempsford’s excellent transport potential is massively underutilised: the site is almost entirely covered by empty fields. But Tempsford’s proximity to so many big cities means that the new town stands a great chance of becoming a huge economic success! 🗺️ The other new towns are: - Crews Hill and Chase Park, Enfield - Leeds South Bank, West Yorkshire - Manchester Victoria North, Greater Manchester - Thamesmead, Greenwich - Brabazon and the West Innovation Arc, South Gloucestershire - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. 🏘️ To make the most out of Tempsford, it is important to tackle one key bottleneck. The Digswell Viaduct, located just south of the proposed new town, is where the East Coast Main Line narrows from four tracks to just two. 🛤️ The viaduct limits how many trains can run on that line, a line currently used by over 20 million people every year. We need to fix that bottleneck to ensure that a new station at Tempsford doesn't slow down services. You can read @KaneEmerson's paper, where Tempsford new town was first proposed, here: britishprogress.org/briefings/new-… And you can read and support the Government’s in-depth consultation on the New Towns here: gov.uk/government/con…
@BareLeft Nationalisation would do what happened the last time - ensure that there is massive ongoing underinvestment in water (but this time a truly exortionate prices, as with say HS2).
Here's the newspaper that the Greens are delivering around Cambridge today.
One of the biggest cheat codes is berriemaxxing. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries are some of the healthiest foods on the planet. They are high in fiber, low in calories, anti-inflammatory, and contain anthocyanins, which are great for your gut and brain.
In this opinion piece, the UK government's cost-of-living tsar seems to think companies that obtain windfall profits from temporarily higher margins from energy shocks raising gas and oil prices have a sort of moral duty to hold prices down. But the trade-off isn't: higher profits vs. lower prices. What's at stake is the functioning of a market price system. a) if prices don't reflect reality there's less incentive to bring forth new supply, b) if prices don't reflect reality there's more incentive for consumers to purchase "excess" rather than economise c) and so, if prices don't reflect reality there's more likely to be shortages & less investment in future supply too. thetimes.com/comment/cartoo…
how it feels to be a rent control disliker online