Stadium expansions in South London. Both Crystal Palace and Dulwich Hamlet getting upgrades. The latter comes with 219 new homes. A few more upgrades and we can have a London World Cup. www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/th...

88 to 278 homes. Makes sense. Its a great area. A little more pressure on the transport corridors (Windrush, Old Kent Road/New Cross Road, Queens road etc.). southwarknews.co.uk/news/new-cro...

Massive crane being assembled outside my office on Blackfriars road. Huge.

Don't disagree that housepurchase is more accessible at the moment with 95LTV and prices growing slower than earnings. But it's still very difficult for people with high rents to save these deposits even if only 5%. I like the idea of a universal basic capital www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Talk of electricity grid upgrades today. I wonder if local energy like SE1 Solar could help. Currently we pay for national grid transmission even when energy is sold within the same substation as where it is produced. Solar panels in London can produce energy for London even on a winters day

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... stories like this at big new developments at Elephant and Wembley. Freeholder charging unfair service charges and threatening those who complain. Another slow motion scandal unfolding.

Oh great chart

yeoldeguide.com/stockport/ latest podcast episode out. The town on many levels: Stockport. History of the industrial and social development of Stockport in part 1 🎩👒🤠

Worth signing to bring community energy at scale so we can have cheaper and greener energy in our communities.

yeoldeguide.com/stockport/ Stockport is a town the train crosses over on the vast brick viaduct south of Manchester. It's a very cool place to visit: stacked layers of history with great museums. It's the latest stop in Ye Olde Guide 🎧

Miserable levels of investment in the UK are the reason for the malaise we suffer and nothing working. Perhaps the Today Programme, Peston etc should have given this more critical coverage over the years instead of nonsense like the dreadful budget coverage this weekend.

I am driving Ipswich's culture bid forward because it will help revive our town. As we have seen throughout this year, when people come to an event or exhibition, they spend money in our shops, restaurants, pubs, bars and hotels. This bid is our regeneration project.

www.bbc.com/news/article... at very low end its surely £50m added to the GDP of Birmingham, and £20m tax intake. Good jobs. Good news.

[email protected] research finds that integrating public transport in England’s 6 Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities would improve public transport connectivity to city centres for up to 1.2m people. Read more in this guest blog. www.urbantransportgroup.org/blog/2025/11...

www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/al... good to see local government expressing its view on immigration which is so vital to London.

The Tories need to shut up during the budget. Totally disrespectful to businesses and the population who need to hear the budget detail. #budget

It's #fuelpovertyawarenessday. SE1 Solar is helping hundreds of residents in Southwark with support from NEA. Behind the scenes we are working on rooftop solar models to generate a finding stream to tackle fuel poverty.

Grateful to our friends in California for this structured breakdown of Radiohead's most miserable songs in six categories.

40 new social rent homes sensitively added to Maltby Street, Bermondsey. Replacing old car parks. Very good.

Improving bus speeds one of the most underrated actions in transport planning. Increases mode share & revenue while lowering cost. Step free. It's about prioritising the road space for productive use. This corridor is ideal- a big gap in the rail network, dense, busy, but slow speeds lowering demand

www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/so... great news for the Walworth Road corridor and Southwark. An area dependent on buses and with deprived areas. Faster buses will attract more passengers, make getting to jobs easier, and lower bus operating costs.

How much of UK GDP is spent cleaning up after muppets? A poor deployment of productive capacity. Sorry we can't build homes or provide care because x% of our workers are cleaning up lazy people's crap.

3 trains (including mine) racing into London Bridge. All of them have all seats taken. Plenty of demand for sustainable travel into London at 2pm on a Saturday.

www.timeout.com/london/news/... good to see our city getting healthier by the day

Great trees this autumn

China pouring ahead on decarbonising it's energy and especially with batteries. We could have a rooftop solar revolution on UK housing estates, but we need to reduce distribution costs for solar powering local facilities via local grid www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

I regularly travel around East Anglia. The railway is the best in the country. High punctuality, level access, clean trains. It pays a premium back to the government. The six year old trains still feel new. A success.

In today’s media climate, progressives face an asymmetry: any mistake or misleading impression is treated as a scandal, while the right’s constant stream of misinformation is normalised.

www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/11/06/s... despite some of the most expensive prices in the world and huge demand, vast areas of vacant land sit in London. 25 years wait is absurd. If developers can't make these sites work, feel free to give them to me.

www.ribaj.com/buildings/st... this wonderful building in Bermondsey has won the Stirling prize

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... I'm desperate for the maths behind this decision to be published. Given the prices these flats are sold at I cannot believe they are not viable but could be convinced by some numbers e.g. cost per unit, land cost, policy cost etc.

www.leathermarketcbs.org.uk/project/elim... 35 new council rent homes approved! 🌟 Sustainable, accessible, green — with a new games area and biodiversity improvements. Because everyone deserves a safe, affordable home. 🏡💚

For historical buildings, Ipswich is massively underestimated www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2553888...

Cities around the world are calming their streets, making them safer and cleaner. This road in East Dulwich used to be a congested rat run. Great example of improving London for its residents and due for planting next month 🌳🌿⚘️

Massively frustrating. Thousands of people in insecure accomodation while acres of space next the the Elizabeth Line wasted. No more excuses - build or lose the land.

Given they have a massive majority and most people agree on this: can the government replace council tax and stamp duty with Land Value Tax and higher Capital Gains tax? Seems like there is agreement on this across the spectrum. Am I wrong?

Ilderton road is the stop that gains the most from Bakerloop. Loads of homes going up, the Tustin estate having more added, a new cycleway and Bakerloop. An exciting area. Its high council rent area so benefits won't all be lost to rents going up.b

www.gov.uk/government/p... New Towns Taskforce report makes a compelling case and identifies some genuine new towns, and some urban extensions. Ease of land assembly & transport drive choices. The Crews Hill town could make a lot of money for the state if the land value uplift is taxed.

Good to see the new Bakerloop bus with a decent number on board. I think it will need more bus priority, and bus stops set into the pavement to really zoom past stopping buses. But it has got quite far ahead of the 53 stopping bus I'm on. Time will tell. Loads of new flats at Ilderton Rd so needed.

Strong proposals to make taxes fairer for business and individuals while taking steps towards a more sensible system.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Alongside amazing music, food, craft stalls, SE1 Solar will be at the Bermondsey Street festival tomorrow Sat 20th. We can't help much with the music but we can help make with community energy 💡 bermondseystreetfestival.com

💡SE1 solar will have a stall plus presenting on energy efficiency and community energy at Wonderful Waterloo on Sunday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wonderful-...

Stockport interchange is fantastic. Massive bus station, elevated park, cycle route. In the background is the Stockport Viaduct which opened in 1840 and carries the mainline to Manchester on 11 million bricks. Best view of the interchange is from a train on the viaduct.

Not sure how a site like this (central, near station, riverside) isnt viable for housing. Give me a few square meters and I'll build my own place. www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2540673...

Electric hire bikes, thanks to private sector innovation and investment, have transformed transport (for people that can use them) in areas where public transport isn't good (e.g. Peckham, Camberwell). We should support with more bike parking and easing regs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anyone out there with experience of Biosolar roofs? Or good reading materials? Interested in practical experience of installation and operation.

UK solar power output is breaking records this year, and has now exceeded the total generated in 2024 🌞 www.ft.com/content/9e49...

My colleague and I have been published! This is our method to use machine learning on massive multimodal data to automatically identify the most effective pubic transport routes and produce thousands of value for money business cases automatically 🚇🚌🚊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Episode! Towns in Turmoil: The Tudor & Stuart Era Discover how fire, plague, and politics shaped England’s towns between 1500–1700, and the impact of the Reformation and Civil War 🎧 Listen now: yeoldeguide.com/towns-in-tur... #HistoryPodcast #UrbanHistory #TudorEngland #StuartEra #YeOldeGuide