'Designing procurement to include architecture competitions is an opportunity to ensure new housing that will inspire and last; will respond to and serve increasingly diversifying needs; and, perhaps most importantly, reinvigorate public engagement with and trust in public processes'

yes yes yes

Are either Alban Berg or Karlheinz Stockhausen available?

You are very brave, licking toads. Are they hallucinogenic?

Really good article demonstrating real value of retrofit at scale - though note the gov website says GBIS is for EPC D and below not C and below (and packs up on 14 October).

Behaving like a dictator

I agree. HKD Energy funded a new air to air heating system at Southwater Church Room - which is now loads more comfortable. The old night storage heaters can be chucked out.

I wonder who funds the CPS? Cui bono?
Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Stupidity in the council resolution is breath-taking

Reform UK want a new nuclear reactor at Dungeness, on Kent coast. A site already needing continual maintenance to stop it being undermined by sea level rise

A new reactor there, with waste fuel stored for a century, would be a complete liability

Good going. How are you on the heat demand and airtightness metrics?

5/4

AND....

A much larger poll than Times one published today by More in Common shows "strong support" for clean energy, and that concern over climate change has become "a unifier in time of polarisation"

Clearly some newspapers don't want a united Britain

www.businessgreen.com/news/4518762...

That also implies discussion of double versus triple and the respective u-values

Real retrofit costs compared to those reported on EPCs

The use of 2012 carbon factors probably means that all the carbon budgets recommended by @CCC will be over-aggressive on housing (but their remaining carbon budgets estimate is far too generous for UK so that’s a good thing).