Ryan Walker MRTPI FRSA

What an honour and privilege! Thanks to @drweiyang for presenting me with the award today and thanks to @VictoriaRTPI for supporting me in my year as @RTPIPlanners #YPOTY. #Green #Global #GoalOrientated ♻️

Britain is falling behind on building. Today, Parliament has the 2nd reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to get Britain back to building.

We are confident that the new Nature Restoration Fund in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will mean an end to poorly-targeted, time-consuming and expensive environmental mitigations like HS2's bat tunnel. More detail on how the Fund will operate 👇🏻 mhclgmedia.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/13/the…

Our transformative Planning and Infrastructure Bill, introduced into Parliament today, will speed up and streamline the delivery of new homes and critical infrastructure. It has five overarching objectives 🧵

Today Rayner updated Parliament on what Labour will do to solve the housing crisis. Here are the biggest things she announced 👇

Here’s @zacksimons performing a public service in @thetimes by simply and clearly explaining what the green belt actually is.

Reclassifying just 1% of green belt land it in England could produce 738,000 new homes. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

What should new towns be like? Where should they be? How do you de-risk development and create happy, & healthy, green and popular places? At @CreateStreets we have responded to @UKLabour's call for beautiful new homes with our report #BecomingANationOfTownbuilders createstreets.com/projects/10358/

Times (£) Labour plans new towns with Edwardian mansion blocks and tree-lined streets: “Labour’s new towns will be the towns of the future” said Angela Rayner. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Speech by Angela Rayner on housing today, including a bit more on the Labour pledge to build new towns. Here's some of the statistical context on English house building... 🧵1/7 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

In a devastating new piece, @jburnmurdoch shows that houses are the most unaffordable since 1876 (when we were seven times poorer) 1/

'Not that difficult to get on the housing ladder'? 🏠House price-to-earnings ratios have roughly doubled in a generation from 4x to 8x 💰Typical FTB deposits jumped from 5% to ~15% over the same time period So you need to save (ballpark) six times more vs income to buy today

🚨 NEW: Gove to slash Green Belt housebuilding targets With our arcane planning system, targets are an essential vehicle to encourage authorities to build homes. The government will not meet their manifesto promise to build 300,000 homes a year without them.

“The most important fact in modern British domestic politics: in the 1990s, a first-time buyer couple on a low-to-middle income saving 5% of their wages would have enough for an average deposit after three years. Today it would take them 24 years.” telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…

@RTPIPlanners @sandwellcouncil Massive congrats Joshua, a very well deserved award - make the most of every moment and enjoy your year in office!

@PaulHogarthCo Congrats folks, two fantastic projects getting some well deserved recognition!

At @PaulHogarthCo we try our best each day to make a difference by designing places & spaces with people & the environment at their heart. Thank you to the #LIAwards2023 judges for recognising our efforts with 2 wonderful awards. We are humbled. #Letterkenny2040 #Glenkinchie

Welcome to the 2023 edit of the Iceni Yearbook, our 9th Edition. Click Here 👉 hubs.ly/Q022LsB00 #iceni #planning #yearbook

THIS IS THE FULL FILM… well done C4 How to build beautiful social housing channel4.com/news/how-to-bu… via @kirancmoodley

Hinkley C won't be online until at least September 2028. It was first announced in 2010. In the next 12 years, the U.K added 108.8 Terawatt hours of renewable electricity. So, we've delivered 4.2 Hinkley C's worth of renewables in the time it's taken to build zero Hinkley Cs.