'Ouses, Greenbelt and stuff
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No it's still there.
Should really have some sort of render on it to protect the stone. It used to be pebbledashed but a lorry backed into the corner and knocked the whole lot off. We also picked the 1987 storm to redo the roof.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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IIRC, a lot of church towers are described as having 'rubble-filled' walls.
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It's hard working dressing stone, so makes sense to do as little as possible.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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More stuff going on the cob to hold it in place. First thing this morning was making wooden wedges to hammer into the cob into which he could hammer the studs to hold the mesh in place. He's hoping to put some hessian on tomorrow. Plus a wooden lintel above the door, which, having scraped of black rotten stuff is as hard as nails, even if rather bowed on the outside. Just need to get the new door installed without it falling down once the old door & rotten frame is removed. Fascinating to watch the methods and progress.
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It's all 3 of the little piggies houses in 1 building
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Are you sure that's cement and not period appropriate material?
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I was expecting the UK to be worse. Is there a graph with just Cambridge on it?
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Not housing related but a big planning decision was issued today by the High Court ruling that an application for oil extraction in Surrey was unlawfully granted as it failed to consider the downstream emissions from burning the oil in the environmental assessment of the scheme.
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Just been looking at the plans for the redevelopment of Bromley-by-Bow gasworks. Another example of how you can get high density urban development (looks like over 200 units per hectare plus community facilities) whilst also creating a pleasant inner city place to live. 80% will be accessible to the public and they are refurbishing the 7 listed gas holders which will form an integral part of the scheme with the new tower blocks being designed on a similar footprint. Personally I don't see the point in protecting 7 rusting gas holders but they seem to be doing it without losing development land.
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To anyone doubting that the UK planning system is a massive brake on pretty much everything.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Come with me to Blue Banana Island!
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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^ who tf is this 'influencer', sorry delete that change to f-wit?
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Sounds like one of Boris's ideas. He missed that it could be used as an immigration processing centre / target practice zone for military jets, that would make it a Reform policy.
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Think you are struggling with the light-hearted tone.
The water is only 12m deep over Dogger Bank, though.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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No idea who he is so it makes it hard to judge these days. It's the sort of thing they would do in the Emirates I suppose but they have money.
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I hadn't heard of the blue banana of Europe before either and thought it was something he was making up. I'm really struggling with the idea that someone has created a random shape linking population centres and tried to apply some meaning to it.
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He's an astrophysicist apparently. I think it's only semi-serious musings, not a commercial proposition.
A pretty big chunk of the Netherlands is reclaimed land so we have the expertise closer to home than the Gulf.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Maybe it's Manc33. I still reckon he was an academic on a massive wind-up, given how well he knew how to press CS posters' buttons.
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I'd heard of the golden banana in the med but not the blue one. Is there a whole bunch?
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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There's a rotten banana! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Banana
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
I'm afraid there is an offshore wind farm planned for dogging bank.
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So which bank is it that doggers prefer!
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Yes Cambridge in a sea of nimby Lib Dem MPs isn’t ideal but I guess it’s more the local councils that matter?
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If the planning system gives them that power, then yes.
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If all Labour do in the next 5 years is reform the planning system they will have massively benefitted the country.
As well as the housing shortage, that we have a prison system so full that we can't imprison convicted criminals without first releasing others early, is largely down to the planning system. That none of the 40 new hospitals have been built is partly down to the planning system. Infrastructure taking longer and costing more than anywhere else is largely down to the planning system. It's become a massive, expensive dead weight on so many things.
I'm eagerly awaiting details.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
When interviewed in the past Starmer said it was allowing building on grey belt but still keeping green belt, whether that's changed now?
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