Exploring UK leasehold and its problems
Philip Crawford (@Davis7Philip) is a leaseholder, investor, and (for over 30 years) professional manager of UK residential blocks – so he can see most of the angles. Here he gives a snap, 15-line intro to the problems of leasehold. We are hoping he will develop this into a fuller article outlining the disaster scenarios which the […]
1) Oxfordshire Plan 2050 in disarray? NNGO (NeedNotGreedOxon) comments and questions May 26 2022
Nine months since the last consultation on the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 closed, there has been nopublic progress on the Plan. This spatial plan for Oxfordshire is important because it will coverdevelopment in the County for the next thirty years and will need to be approved by the City andDistrict authorities. NNGO is asking – what […]
New Rules For Protest Actions
1 These ideas are from a person, “P*”, who has been a ‘campaigner’ since the 1970s. He came up with them based on an instinctive emotion-legal reaction to four decades (!) of observing ‘protest’ – a matured and considered reaction which says: it is really time we updated our culture to take into account […]
OxCam Arc GOV UK Survey Reply
Response to GOV.UK ‘feedback’ request after responding to OxCam Arc survey Question 1 “ – Whether I have sought information elsewhere and if so from whom”: Answer: My sources of information are primarily all the noble campaigners whom I see on Twitter or as contributors to City Voice Website. Question 2 “- Any other comments?” […]
Stella Stafford
“If London was built to the same density as Milton Keynes it would cover East Anglia – this is precisely what worries many of us” – Stella Stafford was transformed by events from being an author of cosy fiction into a campaigner – dealing with brute fact – or at least weird proposals. The one […]
Summary of Proposed Biodiversity Legislation
SUMMARY 1 Establish system of EBGs (Established Biodiversity Guardians). 2 They establish Biome Value (BV) for each site. Sliding scales from Keep 100% to All action allowed 3 Especially for Parks etc., >> Intangible Gain Valuation (IGV) (IV is non-cash) decided byLOCALS. 4 Every case is local. No trade-offs. No tariffs. Every site is […]
Mad Council Disease
Mad Council Disease (MCD) is a bovine encephalopathy that affects some councils, sometimes unexpectedly, even when the body politic is apparently healthy and in possession of all its faculties. It has to be guarded against – rather like thunderstorms, which can come unpredictably and require severe and strong channels in place to deal with them. […]
Upend The System
In May 2018 the public was asked to comment on the government’s new ‘National Planning Policy Framework’ This is one response Contents ‘0’ “Why this head-on revolutionary approach?” 1 Nature of the public voice 2 Why this proposal for radical change? 3 The new central principle: planning should grow out […]