I'm intending to do hills around Brighton at night this winter. I've got a short 4 mile circuit near me with 600ft of climbing, but there are longer hills all over the place. Peacock Lane is my current bette noire.
He's on 6music Radcliffe and Maconie now.
I'm currently reading Islands of Abandoment by Cal Flynn, about places abandoned by humans and what happens to nature there - unplanned rewinding.
Has anyone on here found a decent birdwatching podcast? I listen to the US Dirty Bird podcast which is OK - tells you everything you're likely to want to know about a particular species - but obviously has a transatlantic focus. Ta.
For anyone wanting to support another local women's team, Saltdean United are away to Fulham at Craven Cottage tomorrow afternoon in a top of the table clash in the London & South East Regional Division. Both sides have a 100% win record in the league this season. Last season I went to the away...
A number of small things have been done or consulted on:
- reduced discounts for Right to Buy
- Councils can double Council Tax for homes left empty
- increased stamp duty on second home purchases
- more money for infrastructure and decontamination on sites with planning permission but not...
I won't argue the point that there were delays, but they weren't helped by constant Tory cuts (on average, planning departments lost 40% of their staff) and the replacement of regional planning - that imposed a housing number - with the farcical Duty To Cooperate where councils are expected to...
I was told by someone working in a marketing suite at one of these big sites being developed by St William (the gasworks division of Barretts - same developer who are trying to develop Black Rock gaswork site in Brighton) that they were almost exclusively marketing to China and the Far East at...
What kind of assumptions are made about landowner and developer profits though? The last and this government were assuming a developer profit of 15-20% was reasonable, but I read a blog by a Barrett's big cheese that indicated that a tenfold uplift for landowners would probably not be enough...