Tom Gayler
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It's picking up pace - currently working as part of opendigitalplanning.org to create pre-app services which are pretty widely adopted if the level of maturity varies across Local Planning Authorities
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April 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's picking up pace - currently working as part of opendigitalplanning.org to create pre-app services which are pretty widely adopted if the level of maturity varies across Local Planning Authorities
There is a whole commercial service angle to planning departments providing exactly this kind of service (Pre-application advice / Planning performance agreements)
April 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
There is a whole commercial service angle to planning departments providing exactly this kind of service (Pre-application advice / Planning performance agreements)
Thanks Robert, will do!
April 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thanks Robert, will do!
Really like the criteria for evaluating new infrastructure!
April 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Really like the criteria for evaluating new infrastructure!
Thanks, your blog does a great job of setting out the competing policy levers of national and local policy towards more and less roads' which is only ever going to end up in an expensive planning cycle. Trying to square the circle at the delivery phase just won't work (or will be really costly)
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thanks, your blog does a great job of setting out the competing policy levers of national and local policy towards more and less roads' which is only ever going to end up in an expensive planning cycle. Trying to square the circle at the delivery phase just won't work (or will be really costly)
As it might be. My bias is 'build less roads' and I imagine quite a bit of policy is explicitly or implicitly limiting the building of roads yet we still want to build lots of roads. This is where I think the planning frustrations lie (in my view misdirected from conflicting policy and actions)
April 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
As it might be. My bias is 'build less roads' and I imagine quite a bit of policy is explicitly or implicitly limiting the building of roads yet we still want to build lots of roads. This is where I think the planning frustrations lie (in my view misdirected from conflicting policy and actions)
Well that's kinda of the problem right, X piece of infrastructure is not looking good on the spreadsheet because costs are too high and benefits too low. But we decide we need to do it for some political reason. Then the question is "Why are costs so high?" And not why is this not as beneficial...
April 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Well that's kinda of the problem right, X piece of infrastructure is not looking good on the spreadsheet because costs are too high and benefits too low. But we decide we need to do it for some political reason. Then the question is "Why are costs so high?" And not why is this not as beneficial...
Thanks - seems like £270M was on 'planning process'. It'd be interesting to consider this against related costs for a road tunnel in say France.
April 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Thanks - seems like £270M was on 'planning process'. It'd be interesting to consider this against related costs for a road tunnel in say France.
April 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is something I've been thinking about as part of Commonhome, a service to help unburden Commonholders from some of the process and details which might otherwise drag on common ownership www.commonhomenow.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is something I've been thinking about as part of Commonhome, a service to help unburden Commonholders from some of the process and details which might otherwise drag on common ownership www.commonhomenow.com
There is a question of 'does a planning cost of X prevent us building infrastructure that we need?' in this case the answer would appear to be no
April 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
There is a question of 'does a planning cost of X prevent us building infrastructure that we need?' in this case the answer would appear to be no
I mean, I think that feels about right. Without access past the paywall I'm unaware if it is the planning phase overall or the activities pursuant to planning permission but you'd want a reasonable investment in building the right thing
April 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I mean, I think that feels about right. Without access past the paywall I'm unaware if it is the planning phase overall or the activities pursuant to planning permission but you'd want a reasonable investment in building the right thing
Perhaps this is a 'Help I'm a prisoner in a toothpaste factory' vibe?
December 5, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Perhaps this is a 'Help I'm a prisoner in a toothpaste factory' vibe?
My divine one has a very traditional nativity story - I'm gutted!
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 AM
My divine one has a very traditional nativity story - I'm gutted!
The deadly efficient is kind of the give away. He is *only* scoring goals, everything is finally tuned so he can do the only thing he can really do at the moment. Int. football is less patterns and more chaos hence Kane is kind of pass it
November 23, 2024 at 7:36 AM
The deadly efficient is kind of the give away. He is *only* scoring goals, everything is finally tuned so he can do the only thing he can really do at the moment. Int. football is less patterns and more chaos hence Kane is kind of pass it
Loved this, explained the role of gas in making electricity really well. Expensive electric is something that has really hamstrung the move from burning gas for home heating
November 18, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Loved this, explained the role of gas in making electricity really well. Expensive electric is something that has really hamstrung the move from burning gas for home heating
Agree - should routes be closer to country of origin tho?
November 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Agree - should routes be closer to country of origin tho?
I wonder how popular a processing centre in France would be? (also people in France have often crossed many borders already)
November 17, 2024 at 8:27 AM
I wonder how popular a processing centre in France would be? (also people in France have often crossed many borders already)
What is interesting is what form of safe route should we have, assuming that the most politically palatable one that is a functional safe route would be ideal
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
What is interesting is what form of safe route should we have, assuming that the most politically palatable one that is a functional safe route would be ideal
Except they will still be all the old student debt just no *new debt* which probably is not that electorally helpful
November 14, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Except they will still be all the old student debt just no *new debt* which probably is not that electorally helpful