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jonn elledge
The vast, vast majority of Boris Johnson’s London Housing Zones are in Labour-voting areas
NOTE: We updated this story on at 9.30am on Tuesday 14th July, to reflect the fact we’d neglected to mention…
This one map shows why brownfield land won't solve England's housing crisis
Today the British government announced a shake-up of the planning system intended to get England’s housing industry building again. We’ve…
MPs are still six times more likely to be landlords than their voters are
So, this is kind of a good news/bad news kind of thing. Bad news: Fully one in five of the…
Ministers have shelved the Transpennine rail upgrade. Is the Northern Powerhouse dead?
Note: This story was edited at 14.00hrs, to include some counter arguments to our angry rant. You can read them…
These isochrone maps show how well – or how badly – Europe’s cities are connected by train
The other day we reported on a whizzy new Transport for London tool which allowed you to create isochrone maps:…
These maps show that Britain now has the highest rents in Europe
Oh yeah, knew I’d forgotten something. Here we are, Wednesday evening already, and so far this week I haven’t attempted…
New Hertfordshire MP pledges to defend green belt, to protect children from the scourge of low housing costs
Just a quick post, to send our many London-based readers into the weekend with a spring in their step and…
TfL has a tool that lets you map travel times to anywhere in London, and it is brilliant
“We use WebCAT to provide information on London’s transport system to the professional planning community,” explains a rather unpromising page…
Why England's young people are angry about housing, in one chart
Do you like charts? Do you like being angry about how your parents generation has screwed everything up for you?…
This map shows how Europe's population changed and shifted in the first decade of the 21st century
Immigration – I know this sounds unlikely, but bear with us a moment here – is in the news rather…