Anna Highfield
@highf.bsky.social
Best Practice Editor @ Inside Housing. Nature lover. Film and book enthusiast 🤓
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
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@insidehousing is asking frontline housing staff: what drives you? #UKHousing
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Inside Housing Management launches survey asking frontline staff about the best aspects of their jobs
Inside Housing Management is seeking survey responses from frontline social housing staff about which aspects of their work they enjoy.
management.insidehousing.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
@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'
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Novelists warn against granting AI right to plunder writers’ work
The Nobel prizewinning author Kazuo Ishiguro is among those calling for the government to prevent tech companies from using their creations
www.thetimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Novelists warn against granting AI right to plunder writers’ work'
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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
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The great climate disconnect
New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time
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February 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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...
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'
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Rayner pledges £350 million top-up for affordable housing
Most of the new funding – £300 million – will be used to boost the government’s affordable homes pro...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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-...
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.
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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
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Listing bid to save Wolverhampton’s 1960s art school from demolition
The 1960s Brutalist building overlooking the city’s ring road faces redevelopment as part of the uni...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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...
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...
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It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine
It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine
Everyone but the credulous media seems to understand what’s behind Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion
It took fewer than 12 hours after Wednesday’s disastrous plane collision at DC’s Reagan National airport for Donald Trump to display his…
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February 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine
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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.
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Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
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February 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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/...
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
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Is the government 'essentially saying scrap the "polluter-pays" principle and replace it with a "pay-to-pollute" principle?' asks Ben Goodwin
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Government to strip environmental quangos of powers to delay housebuilding
The non-departmental, government-funded public bodies include regulators which currently are able to...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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...
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?
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Could an Aussie pattern book experiment help solve the UK’s housing crisis?
Last year the New South Wales (NSW) government in south-eastern Australia launched an internationa...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
AJ Feature: Could an Aussie pattern book experiment help solve the UK’s housing crisis?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/could-a...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/could-a...
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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
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
Reposted by Anna Highfield
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...
Michael Laird distillery named AJ Editor’s Choice 2024
The community-centred Rosebank Distillery celebrates existing features while creating new public spa...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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
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Four ideas to fix the nation’s ‘broken’ planning system
Ask most architects if the planning system is in the worst state they can remember and the answer is...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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...
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
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Office for Place scrapped by government
In a statement made today (Tuesday, 12 November) in the Commons, Pennycook announced that the arms-l...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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-...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/office-...