CommGoodHousing
@commgoodhousing.bsky.social
Community Led Housing for affordable, regenerative, future-proof living in the UK
Exeter Community Energy Admin and promoter of Community Energy Organisations
www.ecoe.org.uk
Exeter Community Energy Admin and promoter of Community Energy Organisations
www.ecoe.org.uk
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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How ambitious is the Government’s newly announced affordable homes programme?
It is significantly bigger than recent funding packages, and almost as big (in annual terms) as the programme delivered by the last Labour government ⤵️
It is significantly bigger than recent funding packages, and almost as big (in annual terms) as the programme delivered by the last Labour government ⤵️
June 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How ambitious is the Government’s newly announced affordable homes programme?
It is significantly bigger than recent funding packages, and almost as big (in annual terms) as the programme delivered by the last Labour government ⤵️
It is significantly bigger than recent funding packages, and almost as big (in annual terms) as the programme delivered by the last Labour government ⤵️
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Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground. What can be learnt from this still rare and radical way of living together?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground
The senior co-housing scheme in Barnet, north London, was developed, funded and co-designed by a group of women, working with Pollard Thomas Edwards. Almost a decade after its completion, what can be ...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground. What can be learnt from this still rare and radical way of living together?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
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👏👏Brill to see @chrishinchliff.bsky.social stand up for his constituents & support public ownership.
Water is an essential resource & public water is fundamental to a healthy democracy.
@weownit.org.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
Water is an essential resource & public water is fundamental to a healthy democracy.
@weownit.org.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
👏👏Brill to see @chrishinchliff.bsky.social stand up for his constituents & support public ownership.
Water is an essential resource & public water is fundamental to a healthy democracy.
@weownit.org.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
Water is an essential resource & public water is fundamental to a healthy democracy.
@weownit.org.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
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An overused term on social media, but @munirawilson SCHOOLS Lord Frost on #Brexit here - and it is glorious!
DF: "Anyone can come up with anecdotes."
MW: "These are not anecdotes, but cold hard facts. Your Brexit is damaging our economy - which your gov't left on its knees." ~AA
DF: "Anyone can come up with anecdotes."
MW: "These are not anecdotes, but cold hard facts. Your Brexit is damaging our economy - which your gov't left on its knees." ~AA
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
An overused term on social media, but @munirawilson SCHOOLS Lord Frost on #Brexit here - and it is glorious!
DF: "Anyone can come up with anecdotes."
MW: "These are not anecdotes, but cold hard facts. Your Brexit is damaging our economy - which your gov't left on its knees." ~AA
DF: "Anyone can come up with anecdotes."
MW: "These are not anecdotes, but cold hard facts. Your Brexit is damaging our economy - which your gov't left on its knees." ~AA
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
@nathantankus.bsky.social can you follow up?
Apparently, they even tried to get into the World Bank.
February 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@nathantankus.bsky.social can you follow up?
Apparently, they even tried to get into the World Bank.
February 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Beyer's comment that it's hard for Dems to purposely gum up the works because they want government to work is, I think, the reason Republicans are better at street fighting. No Republican ever says, "we don't want to cause damage that gets a lot of innocent people hurt and destroys the country."
Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get *a single vote* for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government.
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Beyer's comment that it's hard for Dems to purposely gum up the works because they want government to work is, I think, the reason Republicans are better at street fighting. No Republican ever says, "we don't want to cause damage that gets a lot of innocent people hurt and destroys the country."
Scott Bessant, the new US Treasury Secretary (much like the UK Chancellor) has given all payments access to the El Muskateer this weekend.
No one elected either of these men. Musk &Co. was handed clearance to plug in private HD servers at govt offices.
Payback for helping an election result?
No one elected either of these men. Musk &Co. was handed clearance to plug in private HD servers at govt offices.
Payback for helping an election result?
February 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Scott Bessant, the new US Treasury Secretary (much like the UK Chancellor) has given all payments access to the El Muskateer this weekend.
No one elected either of these men. Musk &Co. was handed clearance to plug in private HD servers at govt offices.
Payback for helping an election result?
No one elected either of these men. Musk &Co. was handed clearance to plug in private HD servers at govt offices.
Payback for helping an election result?
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This is a useful service that's been set up to try to tackle some of the difficulties that private housebuilders are having with finding a housing association or council to take on the affordable homes on new sites.
Near 300 organisations sign up for Section 106 affordable housing clearing service hqnetwork.co.uk/news/near-30... #ukhousing
Near 300 organisations sign up for Section 106 affordable housing clearing service - HQN
Nearly 300 organisations from across England have signed up to the new Section 106 affordable housing clearing service to help unlock delivery, the government
hqnetwork.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is a useful service that's been set up to try to tackle some of the difficulties that private housebuilders are having with finding a housing association or council to take on the affordable homes on new sites.
Brilliant local efforts being documented here:
Creating a social memory of the work and leaders in the Community Energy space in Devon.
Plus and arts project re portraiture!
...what's not to like?
vimeo.com/1028416087
Creating a social memory of the work and leaders in the Community Energy space in Devon.
Plus and arts project re portraiture!
...what's not to like?
vimeo.com/1028416087
Regen - We are all People of Power
Artist Polly Meyrick meets the energy changemakers of Devon.
vimeo.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Brilliant local efforts being documented here:
Creating a social memory of the work and leaders in the Community Energy space in Devon.
Plus and arts project re portraiture!
...what's not to like?
vimeo.com/1028416087
Creating a social memory of the work and leaders in the Community Energy space in Devon.
Plus and arts project re portraiture!
...what's not to like?
vimeo.com/1028416087
Meme: absolutely reductive view to divide haves/have nots
Me, thinking abit: the human race's chief failing CAN BE reduced to one thing--being obsessed about territory/autonomy and its modern iteration of property ownership/control of others.
Me, thinking abit: the human race's chief failing CAN BE reduced to one thing--being obsessed about territory/autonomy and its modern iteration of property ownership/control of others.
January 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Meme: absolutely reductive view to divide haves/have nots
Me, thinking abit: the human race's chief failing CAN BE reduced to one thing--being obsessed about territory/autonomy and its modern iteration of property ownership/control of others.
Me, thinking abit: the human race's chief failing CAN BE reduced to one thing--being obsessed about territory/autonomy and its modern iteration of property ownership/control of others.
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Seems so obvious that communities are often best placed to lead their own dvlpt & that many alt models are broken! A new report from the the European #CLT Network shows various scenarios of communities successfully managing #housing & mixed use & urban dvlpts www.clteurope.org/newsandinsig...
European Community Land Trust Network
Proposals on transforming management of large housing-led sites in England and Europe.
www.clteurope.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Seems so obvious that communities are often best placed to lead their own dvlpt & that many alt models are broken! A new report from the the European #CLT Network shows various scenarios of communities successfully managing #housing & mixed use & urban dvlpts www.clteurope.org/newsandinsig...
Bsky! Pls make this press conference by Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader of Canada go viral?
It's one of the best a-z lessons on how-to pushback and take questions on the utter nonsensical incoming US admin and GOP.
Deserves a FULL watch. You'll be glad you did!
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
It's one of the best a-z lessons on how-to pushback and take questions on the utter nonsensical incoming US admin and GOP.
Deserves a FULL watch. You'll be glad you did!
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
Canada–U.S. Relations: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May Proposes Strategy
At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, discusses her party's proposed strategy for Canada–U.S. relations ahead of the return to offi...
www.cpac.ca
January 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Bsky! Pls make this press conference by Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader of Canada go viral?
It's one of the best a-z lessons on how-to pushback and take questions on the utter nonsensical incoming US admin and GOP.
Deserves a FULL watch. You'll be glad you did!
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
It's one of the best a-z lessons on how-to pushback and take questions on the utter nonsensical incoming US admin and GOP.
Deserves a FULL watch. You'll be glad you did!
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
Welp, apologies to Buckfast...💁♂️
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628b53...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628b53...
January 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, apologies to Buckfast...💁♂️
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628b53...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628b53...
Independent and unbiased (ie proxy) journalism is so important as a bulwark against our creeping autocracies. I mourn with Carole the passing of the Observer into oligarch hands. Worth reading all 18 posts of her thread here:
This week the Guardian's owner, the Scott Trust, gifted the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media.
This isn't just a dark day for journalism, it's a sign.
Meet the team.
This is Putin giving Tortoise's energy advisory board member an 'Order of Friendship' medal in 2017.
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This isn't just a dark day for journalism, it's a sign.
Meet the team.
This is Putin giving Tortoise's energy advisory board member an 'Order of Friendship' medal in 2017.
1/
December 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Independent and unbiased (ie proxy) journalism is so important as a bulwark against our creeping autocracies. I mourn with Carole the passing of the Observer into oligarch hands. Worth reading all 18 posts of her thread here:
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"We talked about how a Poverty Truth Parliament—made up of people who have lived through poverty—could change things. Imagine the impact if those who have actually experienced poverty were at the table when decisions are made"
NEW BLOG📝 Allison from the Morecambe Poverty Commission shares reflections from a recent Poverty Truth workshop exploring what good democracy could look like & what might change if decision makers took time to really listen to the experiences of those living in poverty carnegieuk.org/blog/what-a-...
What a Poverty Truth Parliament Could Mean for Our Democracy - Carnegie UK
Hi, I’m Allison. In 2022, after my marriage ended, I faced economic hardship in ways I never expected. This experience led me to the Poverty Truth Network, where I began to see how deeply poverty affe...
carnegieuk.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM
"We talked about how a Poverty Truth Parliament—made up of people who have lived through poverty—could change things. Imagine the impact if those who have actually experienced poverty were at the table when decisions are made"
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Really good move here on planning:
- Frees up councillors to focus on making Local Plans
- Speeds up planning process
- Reduces uncertainty
- Respects planning officers as professionals doing their job, which should help staff retention.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
- Frees up councillors to focus on making Local Plans
- Speeds up planning process
- Reduces uncertainty
- Respects planning officers as professionals doing their job, which should help staff retention.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Planning reforms will end development chaos, says Angela Rayner - BBC News
Officials will be able to rubberstamp development plans without local authority permission under the changes.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
December 8, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Really good move here on planning:
- Frees up councillors to focus on making Local Plans
- Speeds up planning process
- Reduces uncertainty
- Respects planning officers as professionals doing their job, which should help staff retention.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
- Frees up councillors to focus on making Local Plans
- Speeds up planning process
- Reduces uncertainty
- Respects planning officers as professionals doing their job, which should help staff retention.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Well, this will be different!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Planning Reform Working Paper: Planning Committees
This paper invites views on how the government could reform planning committees to support a plan-led system and ensure appropriate democratic oversight.
www.gov.uk
December 9, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Well, this will be different!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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What a cohort! We're delighted to see some friends and fellow collaborators here, and excited to follow the whole journey of local people turning extraordinary ideas in their neighbourhoods into action @footworktrust.bsky.social
📢 Starting our Bluesky journey with exciting news: Footwork’s People & Place 2025 community innovators!
🏘️ These 10 groups & individuals make an ambitious collective, galvanised around a shared mission of locally-led neighbourhood transformation
🔗 www.footwork.org.uk/post/meet-th...
🏘️ These 10 groups & individuals make an ambitious collective, galvanised around a shared mission of locally-led neighbourhood transformation
🔗 www.footwork.org.uk/post/meet-th...
Meet the People and Place 2025 community innovators! | Footwork Trust
Over the next year, community innovators in across the country, will receive Footwork’s support to realise bold ambitions for change
www.footwork.org.uk
November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
What a cohort! We're delighted to see some friends and fellow collaborators here, and excited to follow the whole journey of local people turning extraordinary ideas in their neighbourhoods into action @footworktrust.bsky.social
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🔥 The new EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are coming into effect on Dec 13th.
They'll cause UK businesses quite some #Brexit headaches.
They'll cause UK businesses quite some #Brexit headaches.
Post-Brexit GPSR rules: pulling another thread in the fabric of the UK
EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are set to create unique challenges for UK businesses and Northern Ireland’s place in the UK
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM
🔥 The new EU General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are coming into effect on Dec 13th.
They'll cause UK businesses quite some #Brexit headaches.
They'll cause UK businesses quite some #Brexit headaches.
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A recent photo of the river Exe and some trees in the mist.
Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.
Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.
November 21, 2024 at 7:14 AM
A recent photo of the river Exe and some trees in the mist.
Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.
Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.
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We are hosting an online event about insulation & moisture risk, register through link: www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/event-detail...
Winter warmer: The lowdown on low energy building in Yorkshire | Climate Action Leeds
Find out about insulation and moisture risk plus retrofit projects in Yorkshire
www.climateactionleeds.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 4:04 PM
We are hosting an online event about insulation & moisture risk, register through link: www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/event-detail...