Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups with an interest in democratic ways of meeting housing need within planetary boundaries.
Demolishing buildings is bad for the planet – here’s an alternative, theconversation.com (Jul 23, 2024) - House builders 'failing to deliver on nature pledges', BBC News (Jul 21, 2024)
- Community Planning Alliance Writes to New Labour Ministers, communityplanningalliance.org (Jul 10, 2024) — The Community Planning Alliance seeks greater participation for communities in planning, alongside greater environmental protections and the right developments & infrastructure in the right places. "On the subject of community participation, Labour leadership must understand that communities are not "blockers" as they do not have the power to prevent development... Instead, let’s see moves towards co-creation and engagement for positive outcomes... Sustainable development will only be achieved if communities are fully engaged and the Community Planning Alliance can provide insights, expertise and experience from the 600 campaigns registered on our map."
- Retrofitting homes and neighbourhoods helps us "embrace the wholesale reimagination of how we live together", says Civic Square's Immy Kaur, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
May 2024[edit | edit source]
- The UK’s coastal ‘ghost enclaves’ are the result of government failure on low-use homes, theconversation.com (May 23, 2024)
- Meeting housing needs within planetary boundaries requires opening the black box of housing “demand”, By Stefan Horn, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, medium.com (May 21, 2024) — "If the goal of housing policy is to meet housing needs within planetary boundaries, then we have to open the black box of housing “demand” and prioritise meeting housing needs over expanding housing independent from use."
March 2024[edit | edit source]
- Why we need to change direction on building homes, sustrans.org.uk (Mar 10, 2024) — "Our report shows how better design and investment decisions – based on ‘gentle density’ and sustainable transport – can deliver the same number of homes on just 40% of the land."
February 2024[edit | edit source]
- Oxfordshire housing development ‘should be blocked due to failing sewage system’, theguardian.com (Feb 27, 2024)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Housing UK news (latest), 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2015-2019
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- Saving water in South East England
- Urban sustainability news
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