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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 14h

All credit my graphics colleague at CfC

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 14h

There's chart number 2 for the 5% figure

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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 5d

📅 Centre for Cities on: The New Towns Taskforce report

Our housing and planning experts @antbreach.bsky.social and @mauricelange.bsky.social will introduce key takeaways from the report and what they mean for the Government’s housing delivery plans.

Register here👇
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Centre for Cities on: The New Towns Taskforce report - Centre for Cities

Centre for Cities' housing and planning experts break down the New Towns Taskforce report and answer your questions on what it means for where and how we deliver housing.

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 5d

Come watch me and colleagues chat more about new towns - next Wednesday, 11am: www.centreforcities.org/event/centre...

Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 6d

🏘️The New Towns Taskforce report understands what new towns are for, but now it’s up to Government to deliver.

This blog reviews the report's recommendations and the Government’s response👇
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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 6d

🏘️The New Towns Taskforce report understands what new towns are for, but now it’s up to Government to deliver.

This blog reviews the report's recommendations and the Government’s response👇
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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 8d

The New Towns Taskforce report makes for pleasant reading. They've selected locations where fast, large-scale housebuilding is needed.

But I'm left wondering whether it'll all have been worth it. Three starting by the end of this parliament isn't very many...

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 12d

Primary school closures in Inner London have hit the headlines. This is understandable: pupil numbers have fallen; journalists live in London; and people love to believe Londoners are weird.

But I think the story is a broader one: falling pupil numbers are the new normal

Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 12d

Pupil numbers in London are declining 🚸

⚠️But Centre for Cities analysis suggests that the prevailing framing risks being too London-centric.

Read more in our latest blog from @mauricelange.bsky.social 👇
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Declining pupil numbers isn’t just a London thing - Centre for Cities

The headline story on pupil numbers is that numbers are declining across the country.

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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 15d

NEW PODCAST | A year of planning reforms🎙️

@andrewcities.bsky.social, @mauricelange.bsky.social and @antbreach.bsky.social discuss how the government has been doing over the last year as they implement planning reforms to try and meet the housebuilding target.

Listen now🎧👇
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City Minutes: A year of planning reforms - Centre for Cities

Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Maurice Lange and Ant Breach to discuss planning reform.

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 28d

NEW CAMPAIGN 🚨

Right now, people are pushed into poverty when councils send in bailiffs for council tax debt.

But there’s another way.

Together, we can stop this. Together, we can have dignity not debt. Together, we can make Britain Bailiff Free👇

🔗 acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 29d

In this blog @antbreach.bsky.social and I set out the rationale for legislating for a zoning system

A key weakness in the English system is that it doesn't establish clear rules in local plans, and there are limits to how effectively policy-making from the centre (i.e. NDMPs) can override this

Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 29d

BLOG | What should the Government put in the second planning bill? 🏗️

England's planning system needs more certainty at the plan-making stage.

@antbreach.bsky.social & @mauricelange.bsky.social set out how new legislation could help to establish a zoning system. Read 👇
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Rob Johnson @rjson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why? Unis are big international exporters in their cities - they bring in overseas student fees and spending.

9 of top 10 English cities where universities are most important for exports are outside the Greater South East. Leicester will feel this far more than Oxford.

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · Sep 1

The New Towns Taskforce is expected to report to Government in the next few weeks.

Ahead of all the likely commotion, which I expect will focus on locations rather than the big picture questions, I've written about what @centreforcities.bsky.social is hoping to see:

Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · Sep 1

A year since the New Towns Taskforce was established, their report and the Government’s response are expected very soon ⏰

What are the knowns, and what do we think of them?👇
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The new towns are coming: Hopes and expectations ahead of the Taskforce’s report - Centre for Cities

The New Towns Taskforce is expected to publish their findings in the next few weeks. What can we expect them to find?

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Sean Canty @seancanty.bsky.social · Aug 21

That's why 1.5 million homes and planning reform is so important - the electorate want the homes, but reform is needed to deliver them.

You can read much more on the flaws with local planning in the UK in this overview by @mauricelange.bsky.social 👇
www.centreforcities.org/publication/...

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Andrew Carter @andrewcities.bsky.social · Aug 21

How does England's planning system compare to international peers?

Big Q that my colleagues @mauricelange.bsky.social and Luka Kovacevic admirably address.

well worth a read

Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · Aug 14

Why do Germany, France and Japan all build more houses than England? 🏘️

Read lessons from the Centre's research on international planning systems 👇
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Yes, the grass is greener: lessons from research on international planning systems - Centre for Cities

Centre for Cities latest report explains why Germany, France and Japan all build more houses than England, by comparing how their planning systems function.

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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · Aug 19

Today on the blog ✍️

🏛️ Tourist taxes are not about keeping museums free.

Why? Their aim should be to raise revenue that places can invest in their visitor economic and wider amenities.

Read @rjson.bsky.social's post here ⬇️
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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨 Work for ACORN!

We’re hiring a:

- Birmingham Community Organiser
- Hull Community Organiser
- Junior Membership Organiser
- Leeds Organising Assistant
- Leicester Community Organiser
- London Community Organiser

To find out more/apply👇

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · Aug 5

I want to come back properly on this Economist piece that questions Britain's approach to net zero.

It gets three things wrong imo:

1. Ignoring periods of v cheap renewable energy
2. Misdiagnosing the relative costs of renewables
3. Looking backwards, not forwards.

Is Britain’s net-zero push to blame for its high energy prices?

A mighty rise in electricity costs has complicated the drive for clean power

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Rob Johnson @rjson.bsky.social · Aug 6

Me on why city regions should carry on pushing for powers to tax tourists - it's not about the tourists themselves!

A local, flexible, and fully retained tax could demonstrate the growth principles of fiscal devolution in microcosm - for city regions, this is an opportunity to not pass up 👇

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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · Aug 6

What does the Right to Buy consultation tell us?

Where are the wins in the government’s proposed changes to the Right to Buy, asks Steve Partridge, head of Savills Affordable Housing Consultancy

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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · Aug 5

Yes, the grass is greener 🌱

Centre for Cities latest report explains why Germany, France and Japan all build more houses than England, by comparing how their planning systems function 🏘️

Read the summary blog 👇
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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · Jul 25

BREAKING: Our latest research finds that around £169m of renters’ money is WASTED every year 🧵Read all our findings in the thread here:

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · Aug 5

@antbreach.bsky.social thanks for the link!

Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · Aug 5

Too many fast trains seems like a luxury problem to anyone living in HS2land, but this is a really interesting article.

The clear implication: abundance chatter needs less supply-side argument by (train track km) counting and more focus on what thing achieves

www.pekingnology.com/p/china-mass...

China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer

Lu Dadao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warns that oversized, underused HSR infrastructure has ignored basic economic logic, weakened public finances, and derailed regional planning.

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · Aug 4

Miss our report on why English planning needs to learn from Germany, France and Japan?

Click the link below for the full report, or read the short blog here:
www.centreforcities.org/blog/yes-the...

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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · Aug 4

BLOG | Tourist taxes: The acceptable face of fiscal devolution? 🪙

City regions want powers to raise levies on overnight stays. This should reflect less on their visitor economies, and more on the growth-incentivising principles of fiscal devolution👇

Tourist taxes: The acceptable face of fiscal devolution? - Centre for Cities

City regions want powers to raise levies on overnight stays. This should reflect less on their visitor economies, and more on the growth-incentivising principles of fiscal devolution.

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