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oliviersykes.bsky.social
Discipline Lead for Planning & Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at University of Liverpool
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The New Town skiffle group pictured in 1960! Can we look forward to a wave of ‘New Tunes’ now that New Towns are on the agenda again in England? We need something as we are past the usual ‘decade + 4’ rule when music usually begins to sort itself out in a decade! 😉🎶🎸

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So kind of colleagues and students to organise a surprise book cake for my 50th. Birthday today! Thanks everyone!

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Join us to hear the inspiring Professor Michael Dougan talking about all things European.

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Stunning winter sunset. Liverpool 15.01.25.

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Misty morning meadows Liverpool. 15.01.25

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North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 jaunt to Eryri National Park for New Year 2025.

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A few views from the Saint John’s Beacon in Liverpool before it closes indefinitely to visitors on 31.12.2024. Not the best weather but still worth it!

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Atmospheric Liverpool in the end of year fog.

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Did someone say something about supporting U.K. farmers? We look forward to seeing Whitehall crammed with tractors sporting EU flags and rejoin banners in the New Year! And wall-to-wall media coverage on the news channels and in the newspapers… 🚜🇪🇺

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@livuniplanning.bsky.social

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@livuniplanning.bsky.social Well done to all our Planning at the University of Liverpool graduates who graduated yesterday at the December University of Liverpool graduation ceremony! Students from all our programmes passed across the stage at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

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Seems that putting up trade barriers with our huge neighbouring trade bloc does not in fact make trade ‘free’, give us control or reduce red tape… Seems it just means endless cost, hassle, form-filling, loss of competitiveness and ball-ache. For nothing. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/sma...

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Calling all Modernists, Brutalists and bus spotters! Our very own @christina-c20.bsky.social played a major part in saving design icon Preston Bus Station. Learn all about it here bit.ly/3VnZgHF #AcademicSky #Architecture

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Great, the far left working with the far right in France to sow chaos… And as history shows that always benefits progressive agendas right? 🤷‍♂️🤔🤦‍♂️🤡🥀

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At a time when local government funding and planning in England under a new government is in the news, this new chapter with @alexnurse.bsky.social, Sebastian Dembski, and Chris Couch takes a 'long view' on nearly half a century of regeneration policy in England. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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A complex and contested figure Mr. Churchill but the last line of this still resonates strongly today.

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This is getting there. At 100,000 signatures this will be considered for debate in Parliament.

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Interesting contrast between the amount of coverage the news channels gave to the Inheritance Tax protests on Tuesday in the U.K. and that which was given to the repeated anti-‘Brexit’ protests - the largest of which had between 1.5 and 2 million marchers… If you want to talk about diddly squat…

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New paper with @oliviersykes.bsky.social on what Labour's early actions on Levelling Up tell us about the direction of travel for English Governance and devo. @livuniplanning.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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What a fail… How is the aspiration to be ‘Global Britain’ 😉 supposed to begin by cutting oneself off from the parts of the globe closest to Britain? 🤷‍♂️

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Planning sometimes needs to be in the national interest even if the significant effects are local. Democracy is not removed in these instances. The pendulum swings to central govt & parliament, not local govt. Citizens can still have a role, making the case for new local services & good design

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