Do you work directly with social housing residents? Which elements of your work do you enjoy most, and how do you think your role makes a positive difference in society? @insidehousing is asking frontline housing staff: what drives you? #UKHousing management.insidehousing.co.uk/home/feature...

'Novelists warn against granting AI right to plunder writers’ work' www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

The great climate disconnect - New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time, writes @pilitaclark.bsky.social for the Financial Times www.ft.com/content/2251...

Government pledges £350 million top-up for affordable housing funding, adding to £500 million pot pledged in October - but cynics say the cash injection 'really doesn’t touch the sides' www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/rayner-...

C20 has submitted a listing bid to save Wolverhampton University’s School of Art from demolition. A Change.org petition rallying against the plans has racked up nearly 4,000 signatures since it was launched on 30 January. @c20society.bsky.social www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing...

It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour plans to strip quangos of their powers to delay major developments for environmental reasons - Is the government 'essentially saying scrap the "polluter-pays" principle and replace it with a "pay-to-pollute" principle?' asks Ben Goodwin www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/governm...

AJ Feature: Could an Aussie pattern book experiment help solve the UK’s housing crisis? www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/could-a...

No alternative to flattening our green spaces for unaffordable new build homes ? But there is ! Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org

Michael Laird Architects’ sensitive revival of an 1840 whisky distillery in Falkirk has been named Editor’s Choice in this year’s AJ Architecture Awards. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/michael...

Plagued by backlogs, delays and uncertainty, what can be done to mend the UK’s planning system? I asked industry experts how they would tackle the situation www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/four-id...

The Office for Place, the government body set up in 2021 to champion good design and placemaking, is to be scrapped, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has announced www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/office-...