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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 4h

My mother in law, a lifelong labour voter, and very centrist, went green at her last election. I don't think she had a clue what their policies were but the candidate was a friend of her gardener's wife apparently 🤷

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 4h

Tenants should be aware of this likely change in strategy and be prepared to offer less than the asking rent, especially if they see something has been on the market a while.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 4h

Landlords used to sometimes (either accidentally or as a deliberate marketing strategy) advertise a bit low, get loads of interest so take the highest offer. When this becomes banned, they're more likely to advertise at the highest rate they think they might get, and take a lower offer if necessary.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 4h

Well obviously they can't just set the price anywhere they like can they? £8,000 a month for a bedsit in Ealing? No bidders.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 4h

I was poorer when I was younger, but the price of alcohol definitely deterred me from drinking then in a way it doesn't now. Just looked it up and the tax has fallen in real terms, which will be part of the reason drink is now cheaper.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

Think your parents might actually be right though www.independent.co.uk/independentp...

Exposing the myth that our oldest living generation supports Brexit

Many pro-Brexit campaigners have a misty-eyed nostalgia for the Second World War. People who lived through it, though, don’t necessarily feel the same way, says David Barnett

www.independent.co.uk

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

My mother in law died recently at the age of 92. There's nobody left in my family now who remembers the war.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

Well I'd say bottled water is somewhat overpriced. I don't think the tax has increased much in recent years.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

To help mitigate this I think it's important that when data on advertised rents is published after the Renters Rights Act comes into effect that the likely change in landlords practice in advertising rents is noted. And we use data on rents actually paid as much as possible.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

From www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-new...

Agents brace for crisis as third of landlords head for the exit - Letting Agent Today

The renters Rights Bill is to blame for many landlords quitting the sector, it's claimed

www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 5h

A possible unintended consequence of the ban on bidding wars here:

1) Landlords advertise higher rents, expecting probably to let for a bit less.

2) Data is published on advertised rents showing they've risen sharply.

3) Other landlords see the data and put their rents up too.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 7h

I remember very clearly that cans of stella were £1 each from our local corner shop in 1997. Maybe a little cheaper in the supermarket - but massively cheaper today in real terms.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8h

He's about right really. Most people except the far right are anti-fascist.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8h

Given you'd need to be over 90 to have any actual memory of the war, that doesn't seem unlikely...

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8h

lager not larger...

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8h

30 years ago, pints were about £2. But cans of larger from the supermarket were about £1 each. So cans haven't gone up in price at all, but pub pints are three times the price. That has to be a driver of drinking at home, and not down the pub.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 9h

I actually block very few people on either Twitter or here Danica - but you were one of the rudest people I'd ever met, so I made an exception, And will do here too. Sorry.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 10h

Indeed - the greenbelts are disproportionately where you would otherwise want to build lots more housing. Though it's often phrased as if everything is either brownfield or greenbelt, even though most land is neither.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 10h

Land that is subject to other protections is shown on the map (in light green). You can see that most of the land is white. (Not being protected doesn't of course mean that it's currently allocated for housing - that would be a separate decision)

Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 10h

There's an appendix in the full report with tables and spatial boundary files if you're into that sort of thing! www.gov.uk/government/s...

Local authority green belt: England 2024-25 - statistical release

www.gov.uk

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11h

Taking a longer-term (10y) view, the area of land designated as greenbelt has grown, rather than shrunk - mainly because Northumberland decided to designate an additional 25,000 hectares as greenbelt in 2021.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11h

The redesignation of greenbelt land for other uses happened in just 6 authorities - as shown below

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11h

The stats show that 0.04% of greenbelt land was released for other uses last year - we could go on releasing greenbelt land at this rate for the next 100 years, and still have more than 90% of the greenbelt untouched.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11h

Latest stats on greenbelt land published today - I think people are always surprised by this map, which shows that the large majority of land across England is neither built up, nor greenbelt. Most of it's just ordinary, unprotected farmland. www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11h

This is really good news - 21,000 new homes can now go ahead, as solutions have been found that protects water systems.

Housebuilding had been paused across much of Sussex for the last 4 years because of concerns that supplying the water to new homes would damage local ecosystems.

Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social · 12h

The breakthrough in Sussex North demonstrates how through smart policy interventions we can unlock precisely the kind of win-win for development and nature that this government is committed to achieving.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Thousands of new homes get the go ahead in North Sussex

21,000 new homes in North Sussex unlocked after four-year bottleneck

www.gov.uk

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