New report + tool, making the case for municipal and community-led development

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ever wondered what municipal or community-led development could look like in your area? 🏗️ Today we launch a free, practical tool to help councils & communities explore the possibilities and keep more value in the places we call home. 🧰 🔗 www.cles.org.uk/rethinking-property-led-regeneration

Good read this, particularly if you are interested in knowing how much public transport investment could be needed to deliver tram networks in more cities (including Bristol), better buses, safer streets for active travel and roads with fewer potholes👇

Benedikt Straňák@benediktstranak.bsky.social · last yr.

Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce billions in capital spending outside the south-east. This is good news! But the scale of the challenge is massive: re-sharing here our recent localised estimates of the unmet public investment need. @neweconomics.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social 1/5

Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce billions in capital spending outside the south-east. This is good news! But the scale of the challenge is massive: re-sharing here our recent localised estimates of the unmet public investment need. @neweconomics.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social 1/5

Solid foundations

Local investment need for a decade of renewal

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📘We present to you our first policy brief “Degrowth for cities” writen by R&Di’s dear member Mike Duff. Our series of policy briefs - which will be coming out during this year - challenge conventional growth-centric policies by presenting alternatives. Read it here: degrowth.org/blog/2025/05...

There is one point on Google Earth at the moment where the map images shift from October 2023 and December 2024 in Gaza. You can clearly see the line between the two, written in destruction

We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️‍⚧️

So BBC News just gave 15min unchallenged time to TERF campaigners celebrating the idiotic Supreme Court ruling without hearing from a single trans person.

🎟️ Tickets now on sale for CWB Summit 2025! 📅 3 July | 📍Manchester Join changemakers, grassroots leaders and policymakers to explore how local democracy and community wealth building can shape fairer economies. 🎤 Andy Burnham, Grace Blakeley + more 🔗 cles.org.uk/events/cwb-s...

@redpeppermag.bsky.social #246 is out and in it my review of 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Who Is Afraid of Degrowth? 🌶️🌶️🌶️ by @celine.bsky.social Can’t wait to read the whole issue!

Super excited. I have followed CLES for s while, so this is a (not so) little dream come true.

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome, welcome, welcome! We're very happy to welcome another new member of the CLES team this week - @benediktstranak.bsky.social brings with him a a passion for spatial data and a wealth of thinking work on local government and the national policy context. 😍 🔗 cles.org.uk/about-cles/p...

New housing developments are locking more and more people into car dependency. NEF research by Emmet Kiberd and @benediktstranak.bsky.social shows over the last 15 years, homes have increasingly been built in places where people rely on cars. This is bad for the environment and bad for our health.

New @neweconomics.bsky.social research out today shows that removing 'hope value' from the price councils have to pay for land could reduce the cost of building the 90,000 new social homes we need each year by a quarter, saving £4.5bn www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/scrappi...

Scrapping hope value would slash cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn, new report finds

A new report has found that scrapping hope value for landowners would slash the cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn.

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A short thread on the data used in the NEF report on car dependency by me and Emmet Kiberd, released yesterday. The report looks at the exact locations of all new homes in England, and shows that they are being built in increasingly car dependent areas. 1/4

Very cool analysis by @benediktstranak.bsky.social and Emmet Kiberd for NEF of changing patterns of car-dependency in new homes, including this historical view. Full report here neweconomics.org/2024/11/trap...

Glad to see this published! @citygeographics.bsky.social’s working paper inspired our @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis and report on car dependency, also released today 👏🏼

Duncan Smith@citygeographics.bsky.social · 2y ago

New open access paper - can we develop London's Green Belt sustainably to tackle the housing crisis? Analysis using EPC and travel sustainability data - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @casaucl.bsky.social

Highlights from the @neweconomics.bsky.social report on car dependency. The report shows that new homes in England are increasingly located in car dependent areas with poor transport infrastructure. The triangle in the figure indicates car dependency of median home from each period. 1/6

A new @neweconomics.bsky.social report by me and Emmet Kiberd is out today, showing that in the midst of climate and nature emergencies when we urgently need to prioritise public transport and active travel, new builds lock England into car dependency. 1/3 neweconomics.org/2024/11/trap...

Trapped behind the wheel

How England's new builds lock us into car dependency

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