If you are a planning lawyer or town planner, or buying a gift for one, consider purchasing our NPPF handbook. I contributed to the commentary on Chapter 15 (policies for protection and enhancement of the Natural Environment). @FTB_law @WSP_UKI https://t.co/xXFW4vx8tG

Please could someone fix the burst water main or sewer in Enfield Town Park? @thameswater @EnfieldCouncil

Interesting Court of Appeal judgment on ‘legal causation’ and novus actus interveniens in a statutory tort claim for allegedly causing a third party to discriminate against claimant contrary to Equality Act 2010, s111(2). https://t.co/bVMYtnwrwq

Megaphone diplomacy on social media, in English, by Oxford-educated men in suits. A genre that could only be dated to a short window of the early 21st century.

Nobody should have to put up with this idiocy. It isn’t ‘free speech’ to smash things up, generate litter and block roads. It’s just antisocial behaviour.

This kind of bonkers paranoid hyperbole has become common on social media and discredits the cause of improving things for Palestinians. Its proponents have no self-awareness.

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I was two years old when the Leeds Supertram Act was passed, and I think there's a not insubstantial chance that I'll die before actually seeing modern mass transit in West Yorkshire

The @mhclg is seeking views on a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and other changes to the planning system. The consultation closes at 11:45pm on 10 March 2026. Read the full consultation: https://t.co/1e4KQRkIL9 #nppf #planningframework #urbanplanning

There is no reason that needs to take another decade, if the political will were there to fund the work.

The previous proposals were found not to be integrated with the existing public transport network, not to improve traffic congestion, and to generate a modelled increase in accidents. It will be important to learn the lessons and design a system that will improve transit.

Link to the previous report. https://t.co/TwSkMeKYkz

Last time, the inquiry found that lower-cost alternative technologies and different routes had not been examined properly at an early stage, which could have achieved better outcomes quicker at lower cost.

It will be important not to repeat of what (simplifying) happened last time, which was to retrofit a business case to a preconceived scheme, rather than iteratively testing alternative mass transit design options to get good value for money. https://t.co/HVkUymSQFR

It is 20 years since cancellation of the “supertram”, 11 years since the flawed trolleybus scheme was refused consent, and now any Leeds tram won’t happen for more than another decade.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a reviewing court must decide for itself whether the decision-maker (here, a coroner) correctly found or failed to find public interest immunity applied to bar disclosure.

@oliver_wright - Are you sure the £7.5bn figure is correct - see thread above?👆

This deserves wide circulation! #JuryTrial

It is really sad that this has been judged necessary. Society has to do more to identify extremists and catch them before they can cause mayhem.

Unusual to see people trying to break *in* to a prison. Bonkers.

It’s fashionable to talk about “place-making”, and this is a good candidate for it. Another is Southampton Central railway station, which is surrounded by derelict warehouses (including an abandoned Toys R Us empty for nearly 8 years) and ugly concrete buildings.