Mark Waghorn
@mwaghorn.bsky.social
Architect and designer of compact homes using natural and locally sourced materials
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“Using Wood in Construction as a significant Greenhouse Gas Removal Mechanism.”
Important new report from @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social @biocomposites-c.bsky.social @asbpuk.bsky.social
woodknowledge.wales/using-wood-i...
Important new report from @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social @biocomposites-c.bsky.social @asbpuk.bsky.social
woodknowledge.wales/using-wood-i...
Using Wood in Construction as a significant Greenhouse Gas Removal Mechanism - Woodknowledge Wales
A report summarising Home-Grown Homes research undertaken by Woodknowledge Wales, the BioComposites Centre and the ASBP that seeks to redefine the role of timber and other biogenic materials in constr...
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June 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“Using Wood in Construction as a significant Greenhouse Gas Removal Mechanism.”
Important new report from @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social @biocomposites-c.bsky.social @asbpuk.bsky.social
woodknowledge.wales/using-wood-i...
Important new report from @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social @biocomposites-c.bsky.social @asbpuk.bsky.social
woodknowledge.wales/using-wood-i...
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This downpayment on the next Affordable Housing Programme is great news for getting spades in the ground asap - to deliver the social homes the country desperately needs. Good now, good sign: fingers still crossed for a transformative Spending Review for social housing
March 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This downpayment on the next Affordable Housing Programme is great news for getting spades in the ground asap - to deliver the social homes the country desperately needs. Good now, good sign: fingers still crossed for a transformative Spending Review for social housing
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TBH it feels a little slow at times here, given the importance of my topic #regenerativeconstruction, especially when you think about the alternative, right? But the Bluesky stats present a brighter picture, thank you all for pushing this. blue.facts.dev/profile/mich...
Michael Burchert (@michaelburchert.bsky.social) - Bluesky User Insights
Michael Burchert (@michaelburchert.bsky.social) - Bluesky User Insights
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February 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
TBH it feels a little slow at times here, given the importance of my topic #regenerativeconstruction, especially when you think about the alternative, right? But the Bluesky stats present a brighter picture, thank you all for pushing this. blue.facts.dev/profile/mich...
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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I think it is normal to build with healthy and biodegradable materials long lasting buildings for our children. How about you?
Extension and rehabilitation of a straw-built nursery school in Nomain, France #strawhouse #strawbuilding
Kontext Architectes
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Extension and rehabilitation of a straw-built nursery school in Nomain, France #strawhouse #strawbuilding
Kontext Architectes
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February 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I think it is normal to build with healthy and biodegradable materials long lasting buildings for our children. How about you?
Extension and rehabilitation of a straw-built nursery school in Nomain, France #strawhouse #strawbuilding
Kontext Architectes
kontext-architectes.fr/project/exte...
Extension and rehabilitation of a straw-built nursery school in Nomain, France #strawhouse #strawbuilding
Kontext Architectes
kontext-architectes.fr/project/exte...
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Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Move fast and make things. Nicholas Boys Smith explains what councils, particularly rural councils with greenbelt, need to do and do fast to avoid the risk of ugly and ill-located ‘housing by appeal’
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January 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Move fast and make things. Nicholas Boys Smith explains what councils, particularly rural councils with greenbelt, need to do and do fast to avoid the risk of ugly and ill-located ‘housing by appeal’
www.createstreets.com/move-fast-an...
www.createstreets.com/move-fast-an...
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Pleased to be quoted in this article on NPPF by Joey Gardiner for @BuildingNews.
My focus is on the new approach to applications for housing on Grey Belt - affordable housing at 15% above local target. Much improved on Draft NPPF IMHO.
www.building.co.uk/features/the...
My focus is on the new approach to applications for housing on Grey Belt - affordable housing at 15% above local target. Much improved on Draft NPPF IMHO.
www.building.co.uk/features/the...
The 1.5 million-home question: Does the government’s planning reform programme add up?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government's ambitious ho...
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January 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Pleased to be quoted in this article on NPPF by Joey Gardiner for @BuildingNews.
My focus is on the new approach to applications for housing on Grey Belt - affordable housing at 15% above local target. Much improved on Draft NPPF IMHO.
www.building.co.uk/features/the...
My focus is on the new approach to applications for housing on Grey Belt - affordable housing at 15% above local target. Much improved on Draft NPPF IMHO.
www.building.co.uk/features/the...
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just "8% of (homes permitted) were on smaller new build projects of up to nine units including self-build ... and from the conversion of non-residential properties."
Good time to re-share illustration from Bacon Review showing Eng planning has become geared to large scale builders' development
Good time to re-share illustration from Bacon Review showing Eng planning has become geared to large scale builders' development
January 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
just "8% of (homes permitted) were on smaller new build projects of up to nine units including self-build ... and from the conversion of non-residential properties."
Good time to re-share illustration from Bacon Review showing Eng planning has become geared to large scale builders' development
Good time to re-share illustration from Bacon Review showing Eng planning has become geared to large scale builders' development
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New HBF housing pipeline report out today
www.hbf.co.uk/policy/polic...
www.hbf.co.uk/policy/polic...
January 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New HBF housing pipeline report out today
www.hbf.co.uk/policy/polic...
www.hbf.co.uk/policy/polic...
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Highest #strawhouse wooden frame build just started in Hylle, Malmö by Kaminsky.se with ecococon.eu prefabricated #straw modules. This is rad.
#rapidlyrenewablematerial #holzbau #CO2storage #bauwende
Please copy and paste and see if your outdated national regulations will implode.
#rapidlyrenewablematerial #holzbau #CO2storage #bauwende
Please copy and paste and see if your outdated national regulations will implode.
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Highest #strawhouse wooden frame build just started in Hylle, Malmö by Kaminsky.se with ecococon.eu prefabricated #straw modules. This is rad.
#rapidlyrenewablematerial #holzbau #CO2storage #bauwende
Please copy and paste and see if your outdated national regulations will implode.
#rapidlyrenewablematerial #holzbau #CO2storage #bauwende
Please copy and paste and see if your outdated national regulations will implode.
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Ministers have been warned that efforts to save the NHS and grow the economy will fail unless they tackle the housing crisis, as a damning report reveals millions of people are living in substandard homes that risk worsening their health.
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
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UK ministers warned housing crisis puts plans for NHS and economy at risk
Damning report reveals million in England are living in poor-quality housing that threatens their health
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Ministers have been warned that efforts to save the NHS and grow the economy will fail unless they tackle the housing crisis, as a damning report reveals millions of people are living in substandard homes that risk worsening their health.
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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'if we build with oil- and cement-based materials and no mechanism to guarantee affordability, we risk burning through our carbon budget and locking in car dependency, while failing to make housing cheaper for anyone' 💯
we need ambition and imagination
we need ambition and imagination
Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis | Phineas Harper
The ‘yes in my back yard’ voices are getting louder, but housebuilding quality is more important than quantity, says writer and curator Phineas Harper
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December 27, 2024 at 12:26 PM
'if we build with oil- and cement-based materials and no mechanism to guarantee affordability, we risk burning through our carbon budget and locking in car dependency, while failing to make housing cheaper for anyone' 💯
we need ambition and imagination
we need ambition and imagination
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New council powers to boost housebuilding and infrastructure
Thousands more homes across the country will be delivered quicker and more easily thanks to new planning changes announced yesterday
#ukhousing #housebuilding #socialhousing #affordablehousing #urbanplanning
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Thousands more homes across the country will be delivered quicker and more easily thanks to new planning changes announced yesterday
#ukhousing #housebuilding #socialhousing #affordablehousing #urbanplanning
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New council powers to boost housebuilding and infrastructure
Thousands more homes across the country will be delivered quicker and more easily thanks to new planning changes announced today.
www.gov.uk
December 20, 2024 at 11:20 AM
New council powers to boost housebuilding and infrastructure
Thousands more homes across the country will be delivered quicker and more easily thanks to new planning changes announced yesterday
#ukhousing #housebuilding #socialhousing #affordablehousing #urbanplanning
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Thousands more homes across the country will be delivered quicker and more easily thanks to new planning changes announced yesterday
#ukhousing #housebuilding #socialhousing #affordablehousing #urbanplanning
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis
Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer
Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis
Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area
#ukhousing #urbanplanning
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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“The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?”
Design & planning make new places environmentally & socially sustainable.. not property markets & land speculation
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What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?”
Design & planning make new places environmentally & socially sustainable.. not property markets & land speculation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
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December 10, 2024 at 7:06 PM
“The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?”
Design & planning make new places environmentally & socially sustainable.. not property markets & land speculation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?”
Design & planning make new places environmentally & socially sustainable.. not property markets & land speculation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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I'm in the 'build more houses' camp. But it's still worth pointing out that real house prices peaked in 2007, which was also the time when household debt relative to income peaked. Supply is a problem, but it's access to credit and willingness to borrow that's bid up the value of the housing stock.
December 9, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I'm in the 'build more houses' camp. But it's still worth pointing out that real house prices peaked in 2007, which was also the time when household debt relative to income peaked. Supply is a problem, but it's access to credit and willingness to borrow that's bid up the value of the housing stock.
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The @ONS data today illustrates why more housebuilding is so desperately needed www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
December 9, 2024 at 9:56 AM
The @ONS data today illustrates why more housebuilding is so desperately needed www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Well that seems to have worked! Looks like I’ll be sticking around, really looking forward to getting to know you all, thanks for all the helpful pointers.
December 8, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Well that seems to have worked! Looks like I’ll be sticking around, really looking forward to getting to know you all, thanks for all the helpful pointers.
Disheartened at the lack of engagement on this platform, is no-one here interested in discussing the UK #housingcrisis #affordablehomes #healthyhomes #naturalbuild #ruralliving #lowcarbonconstruction or related topics, or do I give up and head back to Threads?
December 8, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Disheartened at the lack of engagement on this platform, is no-one here interested in discussing the UK #housingcrisis #affordablehomes #healthyhomes #naturalbuild #ruralliving #lowcarbonconstruction or related topics, or do I give up and head back to Threads?
Still looking for people interested in finding innovative, affordable and scalable models of housing that can address the #housingcrisis in the UK, and that also reduce residents’ reliance on outside suppliers for food, energy and other resources. Where are you all??
December 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Still looking for people interested in finding innovative, affordable and scalable models of housing that can address the #housingcrisis in the UK, and that also reduce residents’ reliance on outside suppliers for food, energy and other resources. Where are you all??
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Proposals to transform the beachfront Civic Centre and six other sites around Swansea have been unveiled
Regeneration proposals unveiled for seven large sites around Swansea
Richard Youle, local democracy reporter Proposals to transform the beachfront Civic Centre and six other sites around Swansea have been unveiled. Regeneration specialist Urban Splash envisages…
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December 7, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Proposals to transform the beachfront Civic Centre and six other sites around Swansea have been unveiled
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Industry experts have called on the government to make radical changes to boost homebuilding
The Centre for Cities thinktank has warned that the government was on course to fall short of its 1.5 million target
#ukhousing
www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/ra...
The Centre for Cities thinktank has warned that the government was on course to fall short of its 1.5 million target
#ukhousing
www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/ra...
Radical changes needed to boost homebuilding, experts warn
Industry experts have called on the government to make radical changes to boost homebuilding. It ...
www.constructionnews.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Industry experts have called on the government to make radical changes to boost homebuilding
The Centre for Cities thinktank has warned that the government was on course to fall short of its 1.5 million target
#ukhousing
www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/ra...
The Centre for Cities thinktank has warned that the government was on course to fall short of its 1.5 million target
#ukhousing
www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/ra...