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Kitty Thompson🐿

Kitty Thompson🐿

@kittyraethomp

Head of Policy & Campaigns at @CreateStreetsFN 🏡 Views my own.

Skegness ➡️ London Katılım Nisan 2021
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Kitty Thompson🐿@kittyraethomp·
Allow me to introduce you to... Paradise Regained: The conservative case for restoring English nature 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌳 This new paper is the first step towards a distinctly conservative approach to restoring our green and pleasant land, rooted in our philosophical tradition. 🧵👇
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Kitty Thompson🐿@kittyraethomp·
I encountered this monstrosity every day for 5 years on Borough High Street. The posters plastered on it came and went, but the true blight remained. @createstreets is doing something about it and you can help! 📞☎️🫵 Upload photos to our Booth-Booster app to let your council know that you want old, ugly, and unused phone booths to be removed. More details in the thread below.
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David Milner@djjmilner

Ever walk down your street and wonder why broken, ugly phone booths are still blocking the pavement in 2026? You aren't alone and you are no longer powerless. Today @createstreets launch Booth-Buster in beta booth-buster.com It’s time to take back your neighbourhood🧵

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Kitty Thompson🐿@kittyraethomp·
If you go down to the woods today, you’d better go in disguise. If you are planning a trip to the National Trust’s Ashridge Estate, I’d specifically recommend going disguised as a stag beetle... Read my first piece for the @iealondon's new Substack, Economic Affairs, about the Habitats Regulations, along with many other great articles by the likes of @WTMAtkinson, @mattwridley, and @strickia. Link below 👇
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Institute of Economic Affairs@iealondon·
🌳 "An overly simplistic system that regulates whoever is easiest to reach, not whoever is best placed to solve the problem." @kittyraethomp argues the Habitats Regulations are punishing new homebuyers for the sins of the National Trust's visitor management. 👇
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createstreets@createstreets·
@ChristianJMay It is a total mystery why house builders don’t create more of these.
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David Lawrence
David Lawrence@dc_lawrence·
This is such a cool tool and it also vividly illustrates why e-bikes are so transformative + popular. Left is how quickly I can get places from my home without an e-bike, right includes e-bikes.
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Neil Garratt AM@NeilGarratt

What does London's public transport map look like where you are? How do well-connected boroughs compare with their red-headed step-neighbours? And why do people in outer London own so many cars? Explore my interactive London Journey Times map to answer all these questions. 👇

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Neil Garratt AM@NeilGarratt·
What does London's public transport map look like where you are? How do well-connected boroughs compare with their red-headed step-neighbours? And why do people in outer London own so many cars? Explore my interactive London Journey Times map to answer all these questions. 👇
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Michael Dnes
Michael Dnes@MichaelDnes1·
This is an amazing tool for exploring how spectacularly focused London transport is on journeys to the centre, and how much the rest of the city is far further away from its neighbours.
Neil Garratt AM@NeilGarratt

What does London's public transport map look like where you are? How do well-connected boroughs compare with their red-headed step-neighbours? And why do people in outer London own so many cars? Explore my interactive London Journey Times map to answer all these questions. 👇

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createstreets@createstreets·
So good to see one of London’s rare remaining awnings. These used to be standard but nearly all got ripped out in the mad 20th century’s year zero approach to design. Whether you are pro or anti-air-conditioning, we need more of these.
Robert Kwolek@RobertKwolek

Spotted in West London: an awning. We'll need to see a lot more of these on homes old and new to reduce homes' overheating. They're helpful in reducing energy use even if one does have AC.

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Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦@maxwell_marlow·
Nationalising Thames Water what would be a disaster - it’s not easy, it’d be incredibly expensive, and most of all, it would be the wrong thing to do. Me for the @spectator 👇
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createstreets@createstreets·
The public are perfectly willing to support new homes when they are attractive, predictable, and fit into the street they already know and love…
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Adam Tranter
Adam Tranter@adamtranter·
Mature trees provide the shade and shelter required to make cities liveable during extreme heat. Given how long it takes for trees to grow enough canopy cover, cities should be urgently planting tens of thousands of them. 📸 Thermal camera in Lisbon, showing 59.5°C ground.
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Ben Hopkinson
Ben Hopkinson@Ben_A_Hopkinson·
Housebuilding in London faces its strongest headwinds since the Second World War. Starts are down to just 4,170 a year, while nearly 100,000 people moved to London last year. London has not got close to the Labour Government's target of 88,000 new homes a year since the 1930s. As a result, only the richest households can even afford the cheapest homes and the median household cannot afford any house, without a hefty inheritance. London residents are also the most supportive of building new homes in their local area (59% in favour versus 14% against). And if we got London building homes again, the UK economy would grow by tens of billions a year. For all these reasons and more, we desperately need to build more homes in London. My new report, jointly written with @LRFredricks and with forewords from @JamesCleverly and @policylaila lays out how a future Mayor and Housing Secretary can build the homes London needs. We just need to:🧵
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createstreets@createstreets·
What is the worst, most street-unfriendly building you know? Here’s our nomination, a strongly anti-social, place-hating, over-scaled, under-detailed loveless lump, joyless & playless, the logical endpoint of functionalist & “honest” traffic-modernism.
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Alastair Hilton
Alastair Hilton@London_W4·
This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.
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Kitty Thompson🐿@kittyraethomp·
A forgotten piece of Lambeth crying out for some love
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Sam Dumitriu
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu·
How badly-designed 'green' rules are discouraging builders from using bricks. Builders are increasingly told to worry about 'embedded carbon' - the lifetime carbon impact of a new-build. Yet, there's a remarkable assumption used in these life-cycle assessments: that brick buildings only last for 60 years. This is quite clearly nonsense. Brick buildings last far longer. And because people generally tend to prefer brick buildings (to most alternatives) they are far less likely to be torn down. There's a straightforward fix: Assess brick's climate impact over 120 (or 180 years) not 60. createstreets.com/projects/brick…
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