https://www.sobelow.org/ – having a peek at this is a most excellent use of five minutes
‘So Below’ a comic on land rights
Tag Archives: Housing
#1 Christopher Price, CLA
Robin Grey speaks with Christopher Price, Director of Policy for the Countryside Landowners Association about farm subsidies, land value tax, GMO, Right to Roam, open data and the Land Registry, fracking and more.
Insight into UK slum building from 1800s
This extract taken from ‘The Making Of The English Landscape’ by W.G. Hoskins is brutal and telling.
New community land trust project in London
A Community Land Trust, self build, coop design with space for food growing… Some nice work going on in Lewisham… and when I say new, I mean new to me! It looks like they have been planning this for ages and ages.
Private Eye piece on land and housing in the Cotswolds
Remember, we don’t have a ‘housing crisis’, we have a distribution of land and housing crisis.
Private Eye
No. 1384 23 January — 5 Feb 2015
FINE AND GRANDEE
LAST month Cotswold district council (CDC) published its long-overdue local housing plan. Four years late, the draft was put together with the help of external planning consultants, costing the Tory council £321,594.
It reveals that the district’s entire housing shortfall will be resolved by building 2,350 homes on 300 acres of grade II arable land on the edge of Cirencester, owned by local Tory grandee the 9th Earl Bathurst (“Allen” to his chums). Allen owns 15,500 acres in total, so is unlikely to miss a few hundred. With planning permissions expected to be a mere formality from the Tory council, a multi-million-pound windfall beckons.
This plan to expand the area of Cirencester by 43 percent has not been greeted with universal delight by the citizenry. With accusations of Tory cronyism being bandied about, it was timely that the local Conservative Association abolished Allen’s role as honorary president in October.
When Lib Dem opposition councillors revealed that council leader Lynden Stowe had met the earl on six occasions before publication of the local plan, Allen told the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard loftily: “It is not as if I am going for dinner with Lynden Stowe every night of the week.”
Perish the thought. Far too oiky!
Fire In The Mountain – foothills of the Cambrian Mountains – nr Aberystwyth, Wales – 30/05/15
We are going to be performing the show at this brilliant festival in Wales this summer.
Do come and get your tickets early – it sold out well in advance last year – http://www.twoforjoy.co.uk/fire-in-the-mountain
A History Of Community Asset Ownership by Steve Wyler
When my friend Sophie first told me about this book she said ‘Someone has written a book of the show!’
This is a brilliant overview of the last thousand years and what it lacks in a catchy title, it makes up for in compelling prose.
You can download the book from our website as it seems to have dissapeared from the website which previously hosted it.
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