Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc
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LFG 🚀 | Building a City https://t.co/thoXhAtnuS | Gathering Optimists at https://t.co/ev6JRmvJft All views my own. Come to my next party: https://t.co/7Xh2sfjXLl
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Joined November 2011
We haven’t built a nuclear power station in 30 years, and it costs more to ask permission to build a tunnel here than it costs Norway to build one. But there's good news - the problems are so dumb, that the solution fits on 22 generously spaced pages... https://t.co/VfBMYSWxHn
Today, we launch the LFG National Priority Infrastructure Bill - it has the potential to break the cycle of endless planning - and Get Britain Building.
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Ignoring the dumb headline, a new ice age would raise Doggerland!
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels https://t.co/mtZqDdQwce
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Build the Forest City. Immediate injection of investment, building infrastructure and houses, and allowing our highest-tech businesses to expand. All without costing the taxpayer a penny.
We had the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first half of the year, but there's more to do to build an economy that works for working people. At the Budget I'll take the fair choices to cut waiting lists, cut national debt and cut the cost of living.
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I’m joining this great team to build a new city in the UK. Growing the country takes bold ideas and fierce action. Winning forest city could inspire the nation and others abroad, and everyone should get behind it.
We're building Britain's first new city in 50 years. Getting this right is critical. That's why we've assembled an Expert Committee – people who've spent their careers making housing work, protecting nature, understanding what people actually want, and building things that last.
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So excited to have you onboard! @austint @paulpowlesland @tom_chance @shortthought @TomDavenport @bertslide1 @Ray5D @RobinJPickering
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If you think Forest City could work – or if you think we're missing something critical – sign the pledge: https://t.co/fVt61rNKPh We're not asking for blind faith. We're asking you to hold us accountable to doing this properly.
forestcity.uk
Britain needs millions of homes. We have a plan and a team to build them, east of Cambridge, as a beautiful, permanently affordable city.
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This committee will grow. We're looking for more expertise in transport, education, public health, technology infrastructure, and community building.
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Rob Pickering – Early Internet pioneer who's built and exited multiple UK startups. He'll make sure our infrastructure isn't just ambitious – it's actually buildable and won't be obsolete in five years.
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Ray Rafiq – Secured a £2bn partnership to help people buy homes without traditional mortgages. He's seen every way the housing finance system fails young people – and knows what it takes to build alternatives that actually work at scale.
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Tom Davenport – Founder of Times One Hundred. Led campaigns for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, Beyoncé, Coldplay. Won Campaign of the Year at the 2025 European Paid Media Awards. Former WIRED contributor. He'll make sure people actually hear about what we're building.
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Bertie Wnek – Director at Public First, formerly HM Treasury. Worked on energy policy, COVID support schemes, and the 2021/22 energy crisis. Won the IPPR Economics Prize. He understands how government actually works and what makes infrastructure projects succeed or fail.
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Edward Collinson – Furniture designer and woodworker. Works mainly with oak felled from land he grew up on. Creates everything from kitchens to sculptural pieces. He'll keep us honest about what it means to build with timber – not as a trend, but as a craft.
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Rico Wojtulewicz – Head of Policy at the National Federation of Builders. A decade in the industry. Sits on government working groups from housing to renewables. His consistent diagnosis: planning is the barrier. He'll help us build a system that works instead of one that blocks.
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Tom Chance – CEO of Community Land Trust Network. Seven years at the Greater London Authority working on housing policy. He knows exactly why affordable housing fails in the UK – and how community ownership can actually work at scale.
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Paul Powesland – Barrister and founder of Lawyers for Nature. Spent a decade fighting for tenants and small businesses. Lives on a boat on the Roding river. He's here to make sure nature isn't an afterthought and that legal structures actually protect people, not just developers.
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Tara Austin – Partner at Ogilvy's Behavioural Science Practice. She's worked with everyone from Coca-Cola to the NHS. She'll make sure we understand what people need, not just what we think they want.
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This is the group who'll challenge our assumptions, stress-test our ideas, and make sure we're not just building houses – we're creating a place where life actually gets better.
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We're building Britain's first new city in 50 years. Getting this right is critical. That's why we've assembled an Expert Committee – people who've spent their careers making housing work, protecting nature, understanding what people actually want, and building things that last.
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It would still be standing if they'd sprung for the structurally reinforcing LED strips.
BREAKING: 758-metre-long Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, months after opening
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🎆 New Anglofuturism episode: Britain's shadow empire 🎆 These circled bits of land are our overseas territories: underrecognised assets with existing functions relating to finance, science and defence. What if we could use them more imaginatively? 🔽
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