Senior Partner - Place&Infra @tpximpact , formerly FutureGov @CPCatapult & @LDN_gov. Built environment, digital, music and occasionally my own views. #plantech
Joined July 2008
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šPlanning Reformš As everyone else it talking about it ... link.medium.com/EHrJJmDU3Kb
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Stef_W retweeted
11 Jul 2025
The last successful planning application for a reservoir was submitted in 1976
As late as the 1960s Britain typically opened 3 reservoirs a year.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxlā¦
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What a week. Cracking open a beer and going to finish a blogpost about central/local data and read the 10 year infrastructure strategy, as inconsiderately @thomasforth hasnāt been on a long train journey with beer in the last few days to summarise it for me.
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(New) New Towns are pure nerdgasm for me. Learning from my Thames Gateway days and getting excited about the potential opportunities for focusing cross-gov digital activity. Also a nice way to get people excited about the long term vision. Some words...tpximpact.com/knowledge-hub/ā¦
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Great to see the coverage work of the planning data team esp @psd at MHCLG and the incubator for ai gov.uk/government/n... worth noting that this kind of work is only possible with well designed data standards and human focused content-designed guidance to guide the ai.
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Roy Ayers and James Taylor Quartet - Southport Weekender 98 - still in my top 3 gigs of all time. youtu.be/3MAUFNX6ZxQ?si=OBQ_ā¦ RIP Roy š¼
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Had great fun talking about planning, evidence and mysteries (and numbers) with @MrMikeRose and @ChristopherJLA open.spotify.com/episode/6yYā¦
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3 Feb 2025
This comment piece in @insidehousing is one of those rather muddled and mealy-mouthed attempts to defend the indefensible (in this case, the private land value capture sector)
insidehousing.co.uk/comment/ā¦
Hereās a š§µ to translate and unpack some of its sillier lines
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Yup itās AI hype week so why not join in. I have fears but also some optimisim that it could help level the playing field - btwn experts and citizens and councils and planning consultants - but it needs government to fix the data and make rules clearer planningresource.co.uk/articā¦...
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Stef_W retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Probably gonna read this UK AI strategy stuff on Wednesday. Big decision is coffee or pints. Probably coffee.
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23 Dec 2024
Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story.
Which came first ā HS2 or the bats? šš¦š§µ
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Government needs to make rule-based policy and bring some Arms length bodies back in house or at least reduce the length of the arms. The efficiency they are meant to bring does not consider whole lifecycle costs
20 Dec 2024
So much to break down here
"We simply have to comply with the law"... but the law didn't say anything specific, they were simply told "this won't do" by a Quango and had to invent their own mitigation 1/n
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Stef_W retweeted
20 Dec 2024
So much to break down here
"We simply have to comply with the law"... but the law didn't say anything specific, they were simply told "this won't do" by a Quango and had to invent their own mitigation 1/n
19 Dec 2024
šØ NEW: HS2 Chief Executive defends the Ā£100m bat tunnel
āItās the most appropriate mitigation to comply with the lawā
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Make rules to follow not reports to (not) read
10 Nov 2024
Why canāt Britain build anything anymore?
The news this week of the Ā£100m ābat tunnelā gave us some clues.
Hereās the story of this tunnel, which has been 12 years in the making, and some thoughts on what it tells us
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The funding boost for housing in the budget is welcomed but Housing Associations are struggling to manage regulatory requirements on existing stock. How might more design-led and digital approaches help them increase their capacity to build? Sign up pages.tpximpact.com/en-gb/diā¦
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