Martyn Broadest
@martynbroadest.bsky.social
Director of Home for @ConnectHousing in West Yorkshire. @YHClimateCom Commissioner. Keep busy doing stuff in social housing and climate emergency. @NorwichCityFC. @uklabour.
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Today we are in #Bradford celebrating the multitude of individuals, communities & organisations who are driving positive change across Y&H.
At this year’s gathering, we're delighted to be joined by other climate groups & commissions – to connect with each other and build on our shared ambitions.
At this year’s gathering, we're delighted to be joined by other climate groups & commissions – to connect with each other and build on our shared ambitions.
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today we are in #Bradford celebrating the multitude of individuals, communities & organisations who are driving positive change across Y&H.
At this year’s gathering, we're delighted to be joined by other climate groups & commissions – to connect with each other and build on our shared ambitions.
At this year’s gathering, we're delighted to be joined by other climate groups & commissions – to connect with each other and build on our shared ambitions.
I submitted a planning application for a new housing scheme with car free streets between homes and separate parking courts. Highways told us it didn't meet their "design standards" and we were told it would be rejected. We now have a scheme with a road in front of every home... 😔
On the one hand, we have research which shows children need safe, welcoming streets for play - and on the other, research which shows the deadly risk posed to children by SUVs.
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
This ⬇️
“these findings show that the local streets in which we live are just as important a space for children, and we need to make sure they are safe and welcoming spaces, free from traffic and pollution”
“these findings show that the local streets in which we live are just as important a space for children, and we need to make sure they are safe and welcoming spaces, free from traffic and pollution”
August 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I submitted a planning application for a new housing scheme with car free streets between homes and separate parking courts. Highways told us it didn't meet their "design standards" and we were told it would be rejected. We now have a scheme with a road in front of every home... 😔
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On the one hand, we have research which shows children need safe, welcoming streets for play - and on the other, research which shows the deadly risk posed to children by SUVs.
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
This ⬇️
“these findings show that the local streets in which we live are just as important a space for children, and we need to make sure they are safe and welcoming spaces, free from traffic and pollution”
“these findings show that the local streets in which we live are just as important a space for children, and we need to make sure they are safe and welcoming spaces, free from traffic and pollution”
“Simple measures such as creating play-friendly residential areas and safer urban environments where families can relax, exercise, socialise and play can make a big difference. But it’s important to remember cultural differences and engage with communities to make these initiatives successful.”
August 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
On the one hand, we have research which shows children need safe, welcoming streets for play - and on the other, research which shows the deadly risk posed to children by SUVs.
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
Politicians and policymakers need to join the dots.
bsky.app/profile/alis...
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Individuals and families living in supported housing rely on these services to help keep their independence, regain their confidence and feel safe, happy, and secure. #StartsAtHome
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Individuals and families living in supported housing rely on these services to help keep their independence, regain their confidence and feel safe, happy, and secure. #StartsAtHome
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Why would you take the plane when a train goes that fast? You arrive directly in the city center, and there's no hour long security check.
Please @ec.europa.eu tax kerosene and use the money to lower the price of rail.
Please @ec.europa.eu tax kerosene and use the money to lower the price of rail.
August 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Why would you take the plane when a train goes that fast? You arrive directly in the city center, and there's no hour long security check.
Please @ec.europa.eu tax kerosene and use the money to lower the price of rail.
Please @ec.europa.eu tax kerosene and use the money to lower the price of rail.
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Scroll your phone and you’ll see a London of fear and decline.
Walk its streets and you’ll find a city where difference is a strength and communities look out for one another.
The reality will outlast the fiction.
Walk its streets and you’ll find a city where difference is a strength and communities look out for one another.
The reality will outlast the fiction.
Some politicians and political commentators try to talk down and denigrate our capital. I wrote for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on why the false image they peddle is not the London I know and millions love:
‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview’
Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city’s apparent decline
bylinetimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Scroll your phone and you’ll see a London of fear and decline.
Walk its streets and you’ll find a city where difference is a strength and communities look out for one another.
The reality will outlast the fiction.
Walk its streets and you’ll find a city where difference is a strength and communities look out for one another.
The reality will outlast the fiction.
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Community-led and not-for-profit.
Interested in an office/desk at the new enterprise centre in Todmorden? Contact us.
Register with B-With-Us if interested in a social rented Passivhaus home.
Coming to Ferney Lee, Todmorden in summer 2026.
#todmorden
@connecthousing.bsky.social
Interested in an office/desk at the new enterprise centre in Todmorden? Contact us.
Register with B-With-Us if interested in a social rented Passivhaus home.
Coming to Ferney Lee, Todmorden in summer 2026.
#todmorden
@connecthousing.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Community-led and not-for-profit.
Interested in an office/desk at the new enterprise centre in Todmorden? Contact us.
Register with B-With-Us if interested in a social rented Passivhaus home.
Coming to Ferney Lee, Todmorden in summer 2026.
#todmorden
@connecthousing.bsky.social
Interested in an office/desk at the new enterprise centre in Todmorden? Contact us.
Register with B-With-Us if interested in a social rented Passivhaus home.
Coming to Ferney Lee, Todmorden in summer 2026.
#todmorden
@connecthousing.bsky.social
In my 20+ years experience developing as a small housing association housebuilder, @pmsmith.bsky.social analysis here is spot on. www.housingtoday.co.uk/comment/gove...
Layer upon layer of requirements hike up the cost and risk => fewer homes being built. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please note
Layer upon layer of requirements hike up the cost and risk => fewer homes being built. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please note
www.housingtoday.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In my 20+ years experience developing as a small housing association housebuilder, @pmsmith.bsky.social analysis here is spot on. www.housingtoday.co.uk/comment/gove...
Layer upon layer of requirements hike up the cost and risk => fewer homes being built. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please note
Layer upon layer of requirements hike up the cost and risk => fewer homes being built. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please note
#Showyourstripes where you live showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#Showyourstripes where you live showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...
And here are some pictures to record the visit to Lily Close in Halifax with @katedeardenmp.bsky.social last week. The weather that afternoon was lovely which helped show off the new homes and their beautiful Pennine surroundings! @connecthousing.bsky.social #ukhousing
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And here are some pictures to record the visit to Lily Close in Halifax with @katedeardenmp.bsky.social last week. The weather that afternoon was lovely which helped show off the new homes and their beautiful Pennine surroundings! @connecthousing.bsky.social #ukhousing
Enjoyed showing off @connecthousing.bsky.social new zero-carbon affordable homes in Halifax to @katedeardenmp.bsky.social this afternoon. Talked heat pumps, air tightness, MVHR, PV panels & accessibility, but also impressed with the build quality and spacious houses. Photos to follow... #ukhousing
April 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Enjoyed showing off @connecthousing.bsky.social new zero-carbon affordable homes in Halifax to @katedeardenmp.bsky.social this afternoon. Talked heat pumps, air tightness, MVHR, PV panels & accessibility, but also impressed with the build quality and spacious houses. Photos to follow... #ukhousing
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Something we just ❤️ to see 🌿
Solar PV panels going on my roof today, supplied through the @westyorkshireca.bsky.social Solar Collective Buying scheme. Linked to the new 10kW battery, I'm looking forward to #saving £££s on my energy bills. A good price, quality kit and a friendly install team. @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Something we just ❤️ to see 🌿
Solar PV panels going on my roof today, supplied through the @westyorkshireca.bsky.social Solar Collective Buying scheme. Linked to the new 10kW battery, I'm looking forward to #saving £££s on my energy bills. A good price, quality kit and a friendly install team. @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Solar PV panels going on my roof today, supplied through the @westyorkshireca.bsky.social Solar Collective Buying scheme. Linked to the new 10kW battery, I'm looking forward to #saving £££s on my energy bills. A good price, quality kit and a friendly install team. @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social
Improving the energy efficiency of our homes and switching to low carbon heating is a positive e thing. We need to talk more about the benefits - health being top of the list.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Warmer homes and healthier people: what’s not to like about a low-carbon future?
Challenges of hitting net zero emissions are often discussed, but little focus is given to the gains of living in a low-carbon world
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Improving the energy efficiency of our homes and switching to low carbon heating is a positive e thing. We need to talk more about the benefits - health being top of the list.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Enjoyed being Lisa's +1 this evening visiting the Preview of Christmas at #Harewood, here in Leeds. Surprisingly delightful and magical festive display created by Davy and Kristin McGuire. Do go and visit - you won't be disappointed.
November 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Enjoyed being Lisa's +1 this evening visiting the Preview of Christmas at #Harewood, here in Leeds. Surprisingly delightful and magical festive display created by Davy and Kristin McGuire. Do go and visit - you won't be disappointed.
Great write up of the fantastic creative cultural scene we have here in the place I'm proud to call my home. #GOC #Yorkshire
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse
English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Great write up of the fantastic creative cultural scene we have here in the place I'm proud to call my home. #GOC #Yorkshire
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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Pete Apps' post ahead of the publication of the Grenfell report is well worth reading. Pete's journalism on this issue has been groundbreaking and exemplary. Few others understand the intertwined failures of state, regulation & commercial interests to the depth he does. (I must get Pete on here...)
The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry is published tomorrow - Peter Apps’ summary of what to expect is well worth reading: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry report: preview
What does the report need to say, and what will its content mean for the chances of justice and change?
open.substack.com
September 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Pete Apps' post ahead of the publication of the Grenfell report is well worth reading. Pete's journalism on this issue has been groundbreaking and exemplary. Few others understand the intertwined failures of state, regulation & commercial interests to the depth he does. (I must get Pete on here...)
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For #StartsAtHome Day, we spoke to Stefaniia, who told us how supported housing helped her to feel safe and like she "had something to count on" after moving alone from Ukraine to the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0XB...
Stefaniia's Story | Starts at Home 2024
YouTube video by Connect Housing
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August 30, 2024 at 11:06 AM
For #StartsAtHome Day, we spoke to Stefaniia, who told us how supported housing helped her to feel safe and like she "had something to count on" after moving alone from Ukraine to the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0XB...
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It's #StartsAtHome day, where we celebrate the positive impact that supported housing has had on lives & communities across the UK.
We spoke to Thomas, one of our residents, about his experiences.
Watch the interview over on our YouTube channel (TW: suicide): youtu.be/6QEQc6c82og
We spoke to Thomas, one of our residents, about his experiences.
Watch the interview over on our YouTube channel (TW: suicide): youtu.be/6QEQc6c82og
Thomas' Story | Starts at Home 2024
YouTube video by Connect Housing
youtu.be
August 30, 2024 at 8:18 AM
It's #StartsAtHome day, where we celebrate the positive impact that supported housing has had on lives & communities across the UK.
We spoke to Thomas, one of our residents, about his experiences.
Watch the interview over on our YouTube channel (TW: suicide): youtu.be/6QEQc6c82og
We spoke to Thomas, one of our residents, about his experiences.
Watch the interview over on our YouTube channel (TW: suicide): youtu.be/6QEQc6c82og
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Supported housing is vital and needs to be at the heart of long term planning. #StartsAtHome
August 30, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Supported housing is vital and needs to be at the heart of long term planning. #StartsAtHome
If you see this post a picture taken at sunset. The Piece Hall, Halifax
August 20, 2024 at 7:40 PM
If you see this post a picture taken at sunset. The Piece Hall, Halifax