Charlotte Morphet, MRTPI, FRSA, AoU
@morphetminor.bsky.social
Planner| Feminist| Londoner| Academic - Snr Lec & doc researcher @leedsbeckett | Co-chair @womeninplanning |#W7 resident | personal views etc
UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike
Birmingham City Council is concerned about the health risk of 17,000 tonnes of rubbish going uncollected
giftarticle.ft.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
UK’s largest local authority declares major incident over bin strike - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Tell me car storage is more important than safe and green streets without telling me car storage is more important than safe and green streets!
March 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Tell me car storage is more important than safe and green streets without telling me car storage is more important than safe and green streets!
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Instead of senior care being in an institutionalized, hospital-like setting, what if we created far more walkable and outdoor spaces that were monitored and gave our elders dignity? I don’t believe that seniors should live in a hospital-like setting just because they can’t drive and/or need help.
March 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Instead of senior care being in an institutionalized, hospital-like setting, what if we created far more walkable and outdoor spaces that were monitored and gave our elders dignity? I don’t believe that seniors should live in a hospital-like setting just because they can’t drive and/or need help.
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Exploring Planners’ and Developers’ Perspectives on
Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and
Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning
Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and
Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning
Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
pure-oai.bham.ac.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Exploring Planners’ and Developers’ Perspectives on
Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and
Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning
Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Car Dependency and
Emerging Impacts on Housebuilding and Planning
Policy pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
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The Promise of Planning by Philip Harrison & Alison Todes is one of the latest books in our @rtpiplanners.bsky.social RTPI Library series for Routledge, discussing recent changes to South African planning. As series editor, I’m always open to ideas for new titles www.routledge.com/RTPI-Library...
March 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The Promise of Planning by Philip Harrison & Alison Todes is one of the latest books in our @rtpiplanners.bsky.social RTPI Library series for Routledge, discussing recent changes to South African planning. As series editor, I’m always open to ideas for new titles www.routledge.com/RTPI-Library...
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Our report came out ahead of the Planning and Infrastucture Bill. Some of our recomendations such as strategic planning made it in. However, it remains unclear how public transport is going to be funded even in the new towns where it has been promised. bsky.app/profile/tran...
Read the first in a series of blogs based on our most recent report - What is being built in 2025? In search of the station - on which three planning reforms are needed to enable more transit-oriented housing development. www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk/three-recomm...
March 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our report came out ahead of the Planning and Infrastucture Bill. Some of our recomendations such as strategic planning made it in. However, it remains unclear how public transport is going to be funded even in the new towns where it has been promised. bsky.app/profile/tran...
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Rural counties like Wiltshire are also seeing a lot of new homes built. Although sadly often not in patterns that make public transport more viable. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/ec...
Time for rural areas to have better transport and infrastructure
It leads to a brain drain to the UK’s larger cities that is having a real impact on rural economies, like those in Wiltshire
www.newstatesman.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Rural counties like Wiltshire are also seeing a lot of new homes built. Although sadly often not in patterns that make public transport more viable. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/ec...
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Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Health is so holistic: research suggests flossing #teeth 'cuts risk of #stroke by one fifth’.
This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes?
www.thetimes.com/article/1294...
This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes?
www.thetimes.com/article/1294...
Flossing your teeth once a week ‘cuts risk of stroke by one fifth’
Research suggests the dental habit stops the build-up of harmful bacteria and plaque, which are linked to inflammation, blood clots and heart disease
www.thetimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Health is so holistic: research suggests flossing #teeth 'cuts risk of #stroke by one fifth’.
This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes?
www.thetimes.com/article/1294...
This is huge. Should some of the ££ the #NHS spends on heart disease be transferred to dentistry? If Dept of #Health is serious about #prevention then maybe yes?
www.thetimes.com/article/1294...
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You literally cannot grow coffee in most of America
January 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
You literally cannot grow coffee in most of America
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BREAKING NEWS: @victoriartpi.bsky.social is appearing live with Ayesha Hazarika on Weekend Drive Times Radio from 6pm tomorrow (Saturday 25 Jan).
Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP.
🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow
www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule
Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP.
🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow
www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule
Schedule | Times Radio | The Times and The Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
www.thetimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
BREAKING NEWS: @victoriartpi.bsky.social is appearing live with Ayesha Hazarika on Weekend Drive Times Radio from 6pm tomorrow (Saturday 25 Jan).
Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP.
🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow
www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule
Victoria will discuss Keir Starmer's growth push alongside Ellie Chowns Green MP.
🎙️ Listen from 6pm tomorrow
www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule
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Government considering relaxing some of the restrictions on lenders to allow borrowers with small deposits to borrow more www.thetimes.com/article/6a9e...
Mortgage rules could be eased in quest for growth
Embrace of ‘responsible risk’ would let first-time buyers borrow more
www.thetimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Government considering relaxing some of the restrictions on lenders to allow borrowers with small deposits to borrow more www.thetimes.com/article/6a9e...
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I finished a mural last night!
January 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I finished a mural last night!
Do reach out if you want to discuss.
Nice way to end first week back. Will be looking at digital skills.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25.
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
January 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Do reach out if you want to discuss.
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Join us in-person or online for the Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture on prefigurative planning next month.
The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now:
www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...
The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now:
www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...
January 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Join us in-person or online for the Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture on prefigurative planning next month.
The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now:
www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...
The annual event is free for members and will run in a hybrid format. Book your place now:
www.rtpi.org.uk/events/2025/...
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Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them *between train tracks* !!!
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
January 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them *between train tracks* !!!
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
Nice way to end first week back. Will be looking at digital skills.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25.
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
RTPI Early Career Research Grants to fund three new projects
In August 2024, the RTPI issued a call to early career researchers to submit research proposals for an ECR Grant to fund a year-long planning projects
www.rtpi.org.uk
January 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Nice way to end first week back. Will be looking at digital skills.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
Congrats to Hannah and Meadhbh too. Chuffed to see all female recipients.
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RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25.
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
RTPI Early Career Research Grants to fund three new projects
In August 2024, the RTPI issued a call to early career researchers to submit research proposals for an ECR Grant to fund a year-long planning projects
www.rtpi.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
RTPI Early Career Research Grants are funding three new projects in 2024-25.
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
Congratulations to
⭐ @hannah-grove.bsky.social
⭐ Dr Meadhbh Maguire
⭐ @morphetminor.bsky.social
Read more about the projects here:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/ja...
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One of the most important team-ups badly needed for a better future involves those of us working on better cities, & those of us who understand the science of the #ClimateCrisis. So @katharinehayhoe.com & I teamed up on this special Starter Park! If you havent yet, please share. go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp
January 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
One of the most important team-ups badly needed for a better future involves those of us working on better cities, & those of us who understand the science of the #ClimateCrisis. So @katharinehayhoe.com & I teamed up on this special Starter Park! If you havent yet, please share. go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp
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It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
www.euronews.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
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Population Density Map for Europe.| [Made with Blender and Data from Kontur Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons 2023]
(HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)
(HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)
December 29, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Population Density Map for Europe.| [Made with Blender and Data from Kontur Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons 2023]
(HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)
(HT Via Reddit u/importanceNo1464)
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Fragmentation is going to be a big theme of British politics in 2025, I think.
December 27, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Fragmentation is going to be a big theme of British politics in 2025, I think.
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A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic.
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
December 20, 2024 at 7:21 AM
A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic.
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
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Restoration of more pandemic cut services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How are South East trains affected by the timetable change?
Services on Southeastern, Govia Thameslink Railway and South Western Railway will all have changes.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Restoration of more pandemic cut services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...