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Still a few days left of www.bristolwalkfest.com
Great views last weekend from the Tyndale monument on a walk from pretty Wotton-under-Edge (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale...)
#Bristol #walking #Bristol_Walking_Festival
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Great walk for fabulous views from Maes Knoll, led by Bristol members of @ramblers.org.uk
www.bristolwalkfest.com #Bristol #walking #Bristol_Walking_Festival
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roadsafety.scot/campaigns/pa...
Banned in Scotland - not sure the practical experience though.
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What % said they'd be happy to pay more for petrol/diesel and gas, or things produced with those fossil fuels?
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More generally, argument asserting it's all down to one thing and none of the other - or vice versa - doesn't seem very helpful. But maybe I'm just not cut out for social media...)
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Not sure it reached 300k (a year or two w/Scot+NI?) - but it did with public building combined. It certainly achieved a much higher rate of net additions than in more recent times.
I wouldn't want uncontrolled 30s sprawl - but there's certainly scope for planning change to enable more building.
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Planning def. isn't everything and state bldg *is* critical. But a better 'less red tape' cfs might be the 1930s, with more building (inc. public) despite many fewer people. I don't want that (non)planning system but reform is *part* of what's req'd - along with £state, tax change, LA capacity, etc.
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Quite a lot was replacement, rather than net additional, building. Much of which was necessary but it does mean (IIRC) that the rate of net stock increase was slower in the 1960s than in the 1930s.
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She's just the tip of the Iceberg.
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Maybe she's only the tip of an Iceberg...?
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Who better to protect our right to say what we think (and which is true)?
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Celebrating 20 years of Scotland's Outdoor Access Code!
www.fionaoutdoors.co.uk/2025/02/scotland-marks-20-years-of-world-leading-access-to-the-outdoors
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Your beef is weak!
uk.news.yahoo.com/us-commerce-...
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Guessing somewhere highland Perthshire...
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He also seems to suggest that more powers (e.g. site selection and assembly) for local authorities would improve supply - I'm not sure how many LAs, particularly in areas of high demand, really keen on or capable of this...
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Would be v difficult, unpopular and bound to fail - and generate lots of bad publicity: "Labour tells you what to eat / doesn't want you have a hard-earned holiday in the sun / demands cash-strapped families buy more expensive stuff". Followed by "Labour's 'Buy British' campaign a complete failure".
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Episode 31 if you're keen!
fourble.co.uk/podcast/readon
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His brief residence at "Charterhouse Court", Berkhamsted's "premier accommodation of choice for the financially distressed" in Series 6 might just be inspired by the almshouses.
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Great link, thanks!
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Possible future home for the bard of Berkhamsted, Ed Reardon....?
www.comedy.co.uk/radio/ed_reardons_week
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Glasgow's tenements are awesome - the best of Scotland's cities and - from an elegance and land-use efficiency perspective - streets ahead (😉) of England's tiny terraced houses (even if having your own front and back door has attractions).
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Many of the modified or dodgy batteried ones probably are banned already - legally many are motorbikes, not bicycles. But their riders pay no need to road law (no. plates, insurance, etc.) so are unlikely to know or care about the distinction. Which may be why we have this rather crude blanket ban.
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You're right that conflagrations are much likelier during charging (fortunately few TfL trains have sockets!). Rayners La wasn't charging tho?
One Madrid case of minor injuries doesn't suggest (the far higher no. of) train laptops are lethal.At a skim, home-charge laptop fires seem less deadly too.
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How many times have LFB been called out to such fires and how many deaths?
www.london-fire.gov.uk/safety/lithi...
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I'm not sure this would be the case. Many of the DIY conversions will be much cheaper than proper e-bikes. And much slower since many of these lash-ups aren't legally bicycles anyway, they're electric motorbikes - but most people don't know or care about that distinction.
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(Ben Lawyers is a bit trickier by public transport from Glasgow, admittedly!)
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And by rail😛. One of the world's greatest rail routes in fact - though the bus journey is pretty great too. And both allow a couple of beers after a hike and a snooze on the journey home (is there a better nap than after climbing a mountain...?)
Pros and cons to every mode but all worthwhile.
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OK. I have lots of experience with single block management - but not wider estate.
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Do you mean housing block or estate management companies?
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Or public transport to Loch Lomond or Loch Long.
Most Glaswegians don't have cars.
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Those are lions?!
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Seems that trend also downward - but less so, and 'offshored' emissions may have become the more important source.
www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/methodologies/measuringukgreenhousegasemissions
www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/articles/greenhousegasemissionsandtradeuk/2024
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Sounds like delirium has set in...
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Sad - seems it's Grade A listed too.
www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/896680
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Is it still being allowed to deteriorate?
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Thank you - it was appealingly noir-ish. But I wasn't quick enough to snap the man in a trench coat and trilby.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Geor... (although it's not "George's" - just "George"!)
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Maybe more true of Germany, Italy and Spain, where the capital isn't so dominant and other major cities seem more than just provincial capitals?
Comparing Leeds with Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester - which have had more transport investment - might be interesting. Lots of other variables, of course.