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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post, Some Week, Some Thoughts

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This post will mostly be about judicial review but if instead you have come here for a summary of the implications arising from the joint government/Mayor of London package of support for housebuil…

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh Concilio pod this morning summarising and analysing yesterday’s government/Mayor of London announcement of a package of support for housebuilding in London.

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Simon Ricketts and Nick Dines discuss the Government and GLA 'Homes for London' proposals | Concilio Comms

The UK’s #1 ranked panning lawyer, Simon Ricketts, joins the podcast to discuss the Government’s package of support for housebuilding in London. | Better Places by Concilio Comms

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 4d

Ah the same modesty that led you not to brand as simplythebestplanning post turley…

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 4d

Town Legal quiz event co-host POV last night. For charity XLP, at XLP’s HQ, grade 1 listed All Hallows On The Wall in the City of London.

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Panoramic view of event at All Hallows on the Wall Church, City of London

Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 4d

Web is harsh.

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 4d

Am at that age where the dullest of news headlines starts a long forgotten theme song playing full volume in the specific part of my brain that I had been intending to use for some work today.

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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 5d

There's been a lot of media commentary about forthcoming emergency changes to @mayoroflondon.bsky.social planning policies designed to increase housing supply, much of it loud and shallow. I hope this isn't: www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-wi... @simonicity.bsky.social @tomcopley.bsky.social #london

Dave Hill: Will Labour's London housing boost plan work?

Changes to jump start private sector development have supporters and critics, but policy-makers believe the current approach must change

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 7d

These were very happy years for me and I’m finding out in excruciating detail how wrong I was.

Cover of Seasons in the Sun - Britain, 1974 - 1979 by Dominic Sandbrook

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d

Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”

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The Underground Map @theundergroundmap.com · 7d

’Night Lights of Piccadilly’ (from ’This Is London’, 1959)

🎨 Mirsoslav Šašek

#fineart #piccadillycircus

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 8d

New blog post, London Stalling

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London Stalling

This one is about the current position with London (non) development and some thoughts about what procedural steps may be open to you if you are a London (non) developer with a planning permission …

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 9d

I call this art installation “Cat in Tree”.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 9d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 12d

Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen fine reporting from Middle East reminder of BBC journalism as it used to be…deeply informed, sober and balanced …sad to say marks out shallow sensationalism of BBC’s reporting of Westminster politics ….

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Alistair @aebaldwin.bsky.social · 16d

Somehow, none of these people are saying Nigel Blackwell from Half Man Half Biscuit.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 20d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 16d

I went to a conference recently and was astounded by how long people were capable of speaking for to no obvious point. Despite some old myths, my profession have it driven into us that time is money so hard that I’ve become even less tolerant than I might once have been….

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 17d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 17d

Indeed, she was a bit confuzzled…

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 17d

We’ve had clients feed our advice notes into chatGPT for comments and a mark-up and even been presented with a first draft of some pleadings to work from!! & when I explain why this is not a good idea at all of course it is seen as protectionist…

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Simon Ricketts @simonicity.bsky.social · 17d

This is huge & what appears to have unlocked the veto was strong-arming of the water company. More please! For background on the longstanding north Sussex water neutrality issue see my blog post from almost exactly four years ago: simonicity.com/2021/10/09/d...

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Thousands of new homes get the go ahead in North Sussex

21,000 new homes in North Sussex unlocked after four-year bottleneck

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