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@ReginaldAster @SCP_Hughes That's not what single-aspect refers to in terms of property, though. The number of aspects refers to the entire property, so a house or flat made up of entirely single-aspect rooms could be double- or triple-aspect if they are differently-orientated

@DaviesEd @SCP_Hughes If the house has a windowless and is divided into two each room is single aspect - a lot of the bedrooms can be single aspect.

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom cannot comment publicly for professional reasons. This thread is a summary of what I have gleaned.

@ReginaldAster @SCP_Hughes How can a semi-detached house be single aspect? A typical semi is triple-aspect - front/side/rear - and even with a windowless side it's still dual.

@SCP_Hughes A lot of semi detached houses are single aspect and very desirable - what sort of luxury properties do GLA planners live in?

@mcandidate @screenrotpod time to feature @FootballCliches

absolutely sensational work from Keysey here

@ToneDJST @bones_giles Yeah but in a similar way that Cardiff is the capital of Wales, or the US states have capitals, French Guiana has its own capital.

@bones_giles Is there a reason the capital of French Guiana isn’t Paris? I was under the impression it was basically considered an extension of France, hence the old “France’s longest land border is with Brazil” thing.

How will you do on a tough capital cities #quiz?

@WalkRideOldTraf @RoyalMail Oh wow, I thought the pavement in the original photo was the roadway. Never mind!

@DaviesEd @RoyalMail No dropped kerb The loading bay is nearby And.... always full of cars! 🥳🎉

Anyone know when @RoyalMail became full time pavement parking enthusiasts? Asking for a friend

@ianvisits Thanks!

@DaviesEd tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media…

The new government wants to build 300,000 new homes per year. You know what encourages a LOT of house building? Better railways. The Elizabeth line is a case study in how improving public transport drives house building. Last year, TfL said that 55,000 new properties were built within 1 km of Elizabeth line stations, and more are being planned. Now, about that Crossrail 2 railway ;)

@MCleaver @H_H_Gray correct! born a man on the inside, always a man. glad to know you support trans rights :)

@DaviesEd @H_H_Gray Since when? Born a man, always a man. Or do you have evidence to the contrary?

@MCleaver @H_H_Gray Trans women are women

@DaviesEd @H_H_Gray That's a valid argument. As a Labour voter I would certainly never vote Green. They're only interested in pretending that men can be women. 🙄

@ZachElsbury @H_H_Gray and do away with local representation entirely?

@DaviesEd @H_H_Gray This is why individual constituencies should be abolished and replaced with a single UK-wide constituency.

@ZachElsbury @H_H_Gray STV doesn't give you a proportionally representative parliament, it just makes votes count in individual seats. Overall seat share wouldn't differ much under STV

@H_H_Gray This just proves MMP is inferior to STV

@MCleaver @H_H_Gray How could that possibly the case - e.g. far more green voters will have tactically voted labour than the other way around

@H_H_Gray Eh. Tactical voting is give and take. It balances out, so the picture is probably accurate.

@jamesdoestrains @48HrsOnTheTube it's already struggling

@DaviesEd @48HrsOnTheTube Hope you have a sharpener for the red pencil

This is incredibly nerdy but me and @48HrsOnTheTube are having lots of fun

Also 0.2% (!!!) of vans were electric in 2019 - that'll have skyrocketed in 5 years. EV vans comprise 4.9% of market share of new vans smmt.co.uk/2024/02/60000t… Interestingly EV cars comprise 15% of current market share. (also from SMMT)

40% of business-owned vans are <3 years old & those vans do the most annual mileage (p7). 31% of van fleets of 100+ included a ULEV van vs 3% of fleets of <20 vans. That'll be much more now. Also only 16% of vans are used for deliveries, but they do 24% of total mileage (p10)

I'm really surprised that we're not seeing Amazon, DPD, Evri et all required to just use electric vans/cars for home deliveries. This includes any subcontractors. That's an enormous amount of mileage that could be easily switched.

@turini2 Amazing work!

After 3 years of drafting, a side project finally complete and released to the world - a comprehensive article on the accessibility of transport in London. Nearly 9k words…. pretty proud of that tbh en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…