This article is an offshoot from Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England and is for resources in that context.
How to's[edit | edit source]
- We Can Make, new website coming soon, "citizen-led housing"
- WikiHouse, modular, zero-carbon building system that aims to make it simple for anyone to design, manufacture and assemble beautiful, high-performance homes and buildings, even if they do not have traditional construction skills. Think Lego, but for real buildings.
- Checklist for new housing developments from transportfornewhomes.org.uk, Transport for New Homes, supporting new housing that promotes walking, cycling and public transport and avoids dependence on cars. added 13:19, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Community Led Homes: How to do it, communityledhomes.org.uk, added 16:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Visions[edit | edit source]
- Joint vision for planning, Jan 2021 cpre.org.uk, developed and supported by 18 organizations
- ReThink 2025 - Robert Wood, robertwoodstudio.com, includes a section on post-pandemic housing and new construction
Citizens data initiative[edit | edit source]
- Planning Data, Find planning and housing data that is easy to understand, use and trust. added 12:03, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
- About 15% of the UK's total carbon emissions – 68 million tonnes – comes directly from homes, mostly from boilers burning gas for hot water and space heating. That's more than the entire agricultural sector at 10%.[1]
- It's estimated that around 26 million of the UK's existing 29 million homes will still be around by 205O. These will all have to be retrofitted to net zero standard.[2]
- The construction industry produces a huge amount of waste - indeed, construction, demolition and excavation accounted for an astonishing 62% of the UK's total waste in 2018, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.[3]
- Household projections for England, ons.gov.uk
- Cement making is responsible for about 7% of annual CO₂ emissions.[4]
Maps[edit | edit source]
- New: Via this Land Cover Explorer map, you can see changes in land use / land cover, for example the built up area, 2017-2023: livingatlas.arcgis.com, (example for Maidstone and Malling local area, re-centre the map to get links for other local areas), added 14:41, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- National map of planning data, Planning Data, added 12:05, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
- Community planning alliance, grass roots map: google.com/maps
Policies[edit | edit source]
- Homes for all, letschangetherules.org
Quotes[edit | edit source]
- "...sprawling extractive land uses are a lethal threat to the living world. ...unless we count the hectares and decide together how best they should be used, we will lose the struggle to defend the habitable planet." , George Monbiot, Apr 21, 2023[5]
- "In the UK, the built environment as a whole is responsible for 42% of national emissions. The manner in which we produce, operate and renew our built environment continues to curtail biodiversity, pollute ecosystems and encourage unsustainable lifestyles." Architects Climate Action Network
- "an absolutely groundbreaking result for climate justice".
- "This judgment has exciting wider implications for keeping climate change at the heart of all planning decisions.
- "It's time for developers and public authorities to be held to account when it comes to the climate impact of their damaging developments." Will Rundle, head of legal at the campaign group, Friends of the Earth, Feb 27, 2020, in response to "Climate campaigners win Heathrow expansion case"[6]
- "The problems of housing affect most of us. The solutions need to involve all of us, too." Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, 2015[7]
- "There is an obvious link between the construction of homes, and climate change. How do the actions of these two movements relate to one another, and what cohesiveness, if any, exists between them to achieve both their aims simultaneously?", Ola Ayorinde, Feb 2, 2021[8]
- "Some local authority planning officers "fell about laughing" when asked about the quality of community engagement by many developers", Tony Burton[9]
- "We must not build housing, we must build communities." Mike Burton, politician
Video and other resources[edit | edit source]
- RUSS School of Community-led Housing, theruss.org, added 12:52, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Cities engaging in the right to housing, UIA and URBACT initiaitve, right2housing.eu, added 15:44, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
- Self Build Portal
See also[edit | edit source]
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- Housing UK news
- Land activism UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
References
- ↑ theconversation.com, Sep 14, 2021
- ↑ theconversation.com, Sep 14, 2021
- ↑ bbc.co.uk/news, Sep 16, 2021
- ↑ theconversation.com, Mar 22, 2022
- ↑ Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot theguardian.com
- ↑ BBC News
- ↑ The Guardian, August 16, 2015
- ↑ sharedassets.org.uk
- ↑ @Tony4Place, twitter.com, Jul 22, 2020
