Today's news: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 5/5

Curious to see any details of the investment plans: how much, what in, where, and how. More public investment outside of London is a a good start, but by no means a guarantee of a meaningful, positive difference to people's lives (read the report!). 4/5

The report includes figures for every local authority, so you can look up your area! There’s also a detailed methodology if you want to understand how we got to these numbers. 3/5

With Emmet Kiberd, we estimate that outside of London, England faces an annual public investment gap of £15.6bn in transport and active travel infrastructure. £11.8bn in social housing. £3.4bn in housing retrofit. £1.4bn in local energy. East Midlands needs the most investment. 2/5

We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️‍⚧️

The data on travel times is particularly interesting, published by @ubdc.bsky.social at University of Glasgow. And all of the data we used is freely accessible, including the map layers (OS Open Zoomstack) 4/4 data.ubdc.ac.uk/datasets/acc...

For car dependency, we construct a detailed spatial index from data on travel times (by car and public transport) to schools, supermarkets, hospitals, town centres and employment, and Census data on density, car ownership, and transport mode used to travel to work. 3/4

For locations of new homes, we use data from the open EPC register. Each new home in England gets an EPC rating which is logged in a public register. The register contains Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) that can be used to geolocate the new dwellings. 2/4 epc.opendatacommunities.org

Indeed, but sadly not unique in that respect. This is how the Northern Conurbation compares to Midlands, and to London and its surrounds ...

Here! Stockport, and most of Greater Manchester in the zoomed out map

Indeed! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_Pa...

Hi! There were two parts to the research: the first part was data-intensive: we assessed car dependency of all places (LSOAs, small statistical areas) and looked at where exactly new homes are being build, across England. But to understand why this happens, we then spoke to planners, developers …

Hi! There isn’t - it would be great, just don’t have the time and means at the moment. Happy to share exports for any places of interest.