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Enough of these fancy glass boxes, we need actual homes!
Saw another empty shop on Freeman Street the other day, chuck. Just boarded up, collecting dust. Meanwhile, young families are being priced out of Grimsby, crammed into tiny flats with rents higher than Dave’s old mortgage. It’s a joke, lov
Community energy cooperatives with guaranteed grid access and fair export tariffs
Germany has over 800 energy cooperatives. Local communities own solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage. The profits stay local. Energy bills are lower. And public support for renewables is far higher than in countries where turbin
Stop closing rural post offices and bus routes then wondering why villages die
There is a pattern that repeats across rural England and it goes like this. First the bus route gets cut because its not commercially viable. Then the post office closes because footfall dropped when the bus stopped. Then the pub closes bec
Give high streets a 3 year business rates holiday before they disappear completely
Eight empty shops on our high street. Eight. A town that used to have a butchers, a greengrocers, two bookshops and a Woolworths. Now its charity shops, vape shops, and boards in windows. The problem is simple. An independent bookshop pay
We fully support new housing as long as it is built somewhere we cannot see it
We are absolutely committed to solving the housing crisis. Everyone deserves an affordable home. This is a fundamental value of our party and we will never waver from it. However. The proposed development on the field behind Waitrose woul
Let builders build: reform planning from the ground up
Britain does not have a land shortage. It has a permission shortage. Only about 6% of English land is built on. The reason housing is expensive is not that we have run out of space. It is that the planning system makes it extraordinarily di
Preserve our local high street by only shopping there when John Lewis is too far away
I was just stuck in the car park at the retail park again today and it really hit me how depressing the whole place is. I was sitting there surrounded by concrete and massive warehouses like TK Maxx and Costa and I honestly felt a bit sick
Bring back the local pub as a funded community hub
Pubs are closing at something like 50 a month and I know people say well thats just the market but these arent just places that sell beer are they. In a lot of villages the pub is literally the only place people actually meet each other fac
Ban all through-traffic on our road but maintain our divine right to drive everywhere else
The traffic on our road is terrible. Something must be done. Specifically, a Low Traffic Neighbourhood that prevents other people from using our road as a shortcut. This is about safety, air quality, and the children. However, the proposed
Sick of developers trashing villages? Time to give locals a real say.
Honestly, the sheer arrogance of some developers is breathtaking. They arrive in villages like ours, with their slick presentations, promising the moon while completely ignoring the existing fabric of the community and the strain on local i
Bin collections should be weekly. End of.
Fortnightly bins dont work. They overflow, they stink in summer, foxes rip them open. Everyone knows this. The councils know this. Bring back weekly collections and stop pretending the smell is somehow encouraging recycling.
Planning applications should be decided in 8 weeks not 8 months
Our garage conversion took the council 7 months to approve. Nobody objected. Fully compliant with building regs. Seven months to say yes to a brick room. If a standard application isnt decided in 8 weeks it should be automatically approved
Enough with the beige boxes – let's make our towns feel like *places* again
I was walking through the town centre the other day, past that new block of flats they’ve built. Honestly, it’s just a big, bland rectangle. No character, no soul. It reminded me of all the conversation about "placemaking" that seems to go
Enough with the soulless glass boxes, can we build actual homes instead?
Why are we still letting developers slap up soulless glass boxes that look the same from Glasgow to London, when we desperately need actual homes that people can afford and that fit in with our communities? It’s madness. We’re creating conc
Sort Out Birmingham's Bloody Housing Crisis
I'm at my wit's end with the state of housing in Birmingham, it's like the council's just given up. I see families crammed into tiny flats, kids sharing bedrooms with their siblings, and it's just not right. I've worked with these families
Enough! Stop letting developers build luxury flats nobody can afford.
We need a new policy that forces developers to build genuinely affordable housing, not more overpriced shoeboxes. A quarter of every new development has to be social housing, and another quarter has to be at a genuinely affordable rent for
Every pothole reported should be fixed within 14 days or the council pays you £50
I hit a pothole on the A38 last October. Two tyres and an alloy wheel. Reported it. Got told it was scheduled for assessment. That was five months ago. The policy: - Report a pothole through an official channel - If its not fixed within 1
Councils blaming Westminster for every penny they spend. Enough.
It’s the same old story every time. A Tory council in London whacks up taxes by some ridiculous amount and then suddenly it’s all the fault of the government. Wandsworth are saying government cuts forced their hand, but then they’re still r
Give North its fair share
What's the point of having a mayor if they can't sort out the basics like decent transport and jobs. I mean we've got a new mayor in Greater Manchester now, but will anything actually change for the better. We need to make sure that our c
Stop Pricing Out Our Kids
I was at the school gates the other day and I got talking to one of the mums, she's a nurse at the local hospital, and she was telling me she's had to move to Luton because she can't afford a flat in Barnet anymore, it's just ridiculous.