Joe Seymour
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Joe Seymour
@JoeSmash86
Chartered Town Planner working at @mplanningcouk. Originally from Cardiff. Supporter of @cardiffcityfc @cardiff_blues @FAWales @WelshRugbyUnion 🏴
Cheltenham Katılım Nisan 2012
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Please tell me he’s giving the “Vs” to the Swindon fans giving him shit
Swindon Town Football Club@Official_STFC
Ollie Palmer's eighth league goal of the season 💚
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@tomhfh Eco-warriors are celebrating the fish disco in Bristol on Saturday 🤦♂️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-day…
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I think a huge part of the reason why no government has been able to enact difficult pro-growth reforms is that the average voter still believes we remain a rich country.
You hear this in politicians’ rhetoric “the sixth richest country in the world”.
We’re the sixth largest economy but now far from the richest. Per capita we’re tanking down the rankings.
One of the reasons why Poland or China have been able to have growth miracles in recent years is they think like a developing country.
They know they were poor and they have to build to get rich.
We think we are rich and that we don’t have to build anything anymore, or that when we do, it has to be the most expensive possible version of what we build.
Bat tunnels. Fish Discos. Kittiwake hotels.
We think we’re rich so we can afford to chase some wealth creators away, afford to mandate public biodiversity net gain on every development in the country, and afford to ratchet up state pension spending five times faster than the rate of growth in the economy.
We’re suffering from acute ‘rich country delusion’.
It’s only once we realise we’re far poorer than we should be that we can start to fix this nonsense.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.
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@lfg_uk Meanwhile, in Bristol this Saturday... eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-day…
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Bring back nuclear, bring back industries, bring back jobs.
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@deanhtafc @SkyBetLeagueOne @CardiffCityFC They were also level at the point the ball was on Robbo's head, just couldn't pause it at that precise moment.
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@JoeSmash86 @SkyBetLeagueOne @CardiffCityFC That's not how the offside rule works. It's when the ball is played, not after
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@Paul_SLG If the planning system is like Spurs, then God help us all!
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FWIW, I think there is both room, and a need, for both of those elements. But, right now, I think the focus needs to be on "removing grit from the system" and making the planning system we have - however imperfect - work to its maximum potential.
You can think of the planning system like Spurs. It might need an overhaul, but there's also an urgent need to ensure it is doing better in the short-term too.
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This is a really interesting read.
It highlights a distinction between promoting "ideologically pure" pro-development reforms, and the more boring, but arguably more impactful, types of reforms that those involved with the planning system day to day would like to see.
Jack Airey@aireyj
YIMBYs reshaped the housing debate. But if we’re honest they've done more to influence elite thinking than increase housing delivery. To make a difference they need a broader approach - focusing more on demand, viability, real schemes and cost of living. propviews.co.uk/blog/the-yimby…
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@BluebirdsPast Why we didn't go for Biancheri on loan in Jan is beyond me. He would've been the perfect focal point that we've been missing since Salech's absence.
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I do feel that we're missing a presence in the box without Salech. Many a time last night there would be crosses and cutbacks and there's just nobody there to finish.
After the red when Rubin was supposed to be our main threat up top, he was picking the ball up off the CBs.
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Given its new kit season, who does everyone want this summer - personally all for the Adidas return
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@JohnPretty2o2o @ElaineCox11 @RosieP4 In retrospect John it was a bit of a cheeky/sarcastic comment, but it raises a more salient point about striking the balance between housebuilding and environmental protection, compared to the oversimplification of entirely blaming immigration.
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Clearly Mr Seymour you think this comment is clever.
The problem is - IMVHO - that successive governments have encouraged mass migration to the UK from overseas as quangos have told them it is good for growth.
But this keeps demand for housing (and therefore the cost of houses) very high.
The answer to the problem is to properly manage human migration levels in this country and ensure that the population is stable.
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While planners and developers are house building, they are responsible for every ton of carbon released into the atmosphere.
They are responsible for every species pushed closer to extinction or forced to relocate.
To trade nature's future for housing is not development, and it is a disgrace to the word 'growth.’
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@NoelMooney13 Ask Mr Bale for some 💰 to help transform the Vale site into a world class academy like Clairefontaine
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We are developing our new long-term strategic plan for Welsh football.
What do you believe we should be thinking about improving / changing over the next 10 years to ensure we reach our full potential ???
Be as direct as you wish.
#TogetherStronger 🏴⚽️
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Is this one the greatest tries not to have been given? ❌
The lighting strike was cancelled out for Tom Bowen ⚡️
#SixNationsU20
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@tomhfh It's the same story up and down the country. Local planning authorities are far too protective of brownfield, employment land that often accommodates few employees, which should be made available for housing.
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Old Oak Common is set to be one of the best connected railway stations in the country. Elizabeth Line. HS2. Heathrow. A superhub.
But do you see all those massive ugly flat single storey sheds next to it?
Sadiq Khan is blocking thousands new homes, and 'protecting' the sheds.
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A local council is being forced to spend £4.3 million building a "bat bridge" over a new road.
Because, obviously, bats can't fly.
Even a so-called "bat expert" admits the plan is bonkers.
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@AnyaM8_ No, we hate it too. We would like to at least have a chance of obtaining approval for our clients every once in a while!
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Looking at this, it is no wonder that the only people who actually like our planning system are planning consultants.
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
This is eye-opening. I knew the planning system was broken, but it is worse than even I thought. When I heard that planners had recommended Hackney councillors block the extremely popular Shoreditch Works development I asked @Michael_J_Hil to read the planners' report and look through hundreds of documents submitted by the developer. It is really bad. - Developers submitted NINE THOUSAND PAGES of paperwork, planners said it wasn't detailed enough. - Planners said it should be rejected because some flats would lack enough natural light due to shadows cast by other parts of the development. - Planners simultaneously argued there weren't enough homes, didn't provide enough office space, and it was too tall. - Developers had to comply with 42 separate Hackney policies, 75 separate London Plan policies, the Hackney Borough Site Allocations Plan, five other separate sets of standards and policy frameworks, two sets of ‘emerging’ unfinalised policies, plus all relevant national legislation and guidance. - The design review panel criticised the project because every building was of the same architectural style. Planners ignored the surveys showing huge public support for the designs. - New homes must provide outdoor space so residents have access to a green roof, but planners said that might disturb nature. (This is on an exclusively brownfield site) Councillors have an opportunity tonight to overrule the planners. I sincerely hope they do! samdumitriu.com/p/anatomy-of-a…
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This is eye-opening. I knew the planning system was broken, but it is worse than even I thought.
When I heard that planners had recommended Hackney councillors block the extremely popular Shoreditch Works development I asked @Michael_J_Hil to read the planners' report and look through hundreds of documents submitted by the developer.
It is really bad.
- Developers submitted NINE THOUSAND PAGES of paperwork, planners said it wasn't detailed enough.
- Planners said it should be rejected because some flats would lack enough natural light due to shadows cast by other parts of the development.
- Planners simultaneously argued there weren't enough homes, didn't provide enough office space, and it was too tall.
- Developers had to comply with 42 separate Hackney policies, 75 separate London Plan policies, the Hackney Borough Site Allocations Plan, five other separate sets of standards and policy frameworks, two sets of ‘emerging’ unfinalised policies, plus all relevant national legislation and guidance.
- The design review panel criticised the project because every building was of the same architectural style. Planners ignored the surveys showing huge public support for the designs.
- New homes must provide outdoor space so residents have access to a green roof, but planners said that might disturb nature. (This is on an exclusively brownfield site)
Councillors have an opportunity tonight to overrule the planners. I sincerely hope they do!
samdumitriu.com/p/anatomy-of-a…
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@s8mb The problem I often find with Design Review Panels is that the architects on the panel that weren't hired for the project critique the design out of spite, without objectively assessing what is before them.
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Why have Hackney Council's planning officers recommended that the council reject the Shoreditch Works scheme, which would add 80,500 square meters of new commercial, lab and office space right next to the City?
This piece is a good run-down, but the stuff on design in particular caught my eye.
Even though the project is popular with normal people and basically looks pretty good, the Design Review Panel (chaired by an architect from Cazenove Architects) rejected it on taste-based grounds, including because the design was *too* cohesive and they wanted something more eclectic.
Here is an example of how the tastes of architectural elites are forced on the world through the planning system. This is one reason new buildings look so bad and are so unpopular: they're the architectural equivalent of being forced to listen to Captain Beefheart against your will, every day.
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
This is eye-opening. I knew the planning system was broken, but it is worse than even I thought. When I heard that planners had recommended Hackney councillors block the extremely popular Shoreditch Works development I asked @Michael_J_Hil to read the planners' report and look through hundreds of documents submitted by the developer. It is really bad. - Developers submitted NINE THOUSAND PAGES of paperwork, planners said it wasn't detailed enough. - Planners said it should be rejected because some flats would lack enough natural light due to shadows cast by other parts of the development. - Planners simultaneously argued there weren't enough homes, didn't provide enough office space, and it was too tall. - Developers had to comply with 42 separate Hackney policies, 75 separate London Plan policies, the Hackney Borough Site Allocations Plan, five other separate sets of standards and policy frameworks, two sets of ‘emerging’ unfinalised policies, plus all relevant national legislation and guidance. - The design review panel criticised the project because every building was of the same architectural style. Planners ignored the surveys showing huge public support for the designs. - New homes must provide outdoor space so residents have access to a green roof, but planners said that might disturb nature. (This is on an exclusively brownfield site) Councillors have an opportunity tonight to overrule the planners. I sincerely hope they do! samdumitriu.com/p/anatomy-of-a…
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@BluebirdsPast @graham_kavanagh @scottyoung1818 Ultimate limbs in the Grange End where I was stood. One of the all-time great FA Cup giant killings!
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🗓️On this day 24 years ago, a very special night at Ninian Park thanks to @graham_kavanagh and @scottyoung1818.
If you were there, what were your favourite memories of the day?
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