What makes a town succeed?
Ever since I came across his book, ‘Ripples from the Zambezi‘ I have been an admirer of the work of … Read More “What makes a town succeed?”
Ever since I came across his book, ‘Ripples from the Zambezi‘ I have been an admirer of the work of … Read More “What makes a town succeed?”
Rather than trying to produce long screeds that no-one reads, this is the first of a series of posts that … Read More “Ideas for Devizes #1 – Main Street USA”
All the posts I make here are automatically shared on a number of social media sites. From one of those, … Read More “Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership”
On another blog I recently published quite a quite long post triggered by two recent TV programmes about the dominance … Read More “What can Devizes learn from London—or Hebden Bridge?”
Wiltshire Council are proposing to do away entirely with the Demand Responsive bus services running under the banner of Connect … Read More “Changes to Pewsey Vale Connect2 services”
In my last post in this series I argued that we need to increase the supply of land for housing … Read More “Housing – the Irish experience”
Previous posts have looked at the way we provide affordable housing in the UK and identified some problems with that … Read More “Affordable housing – supply issues”
Ffibre to the cabinet seems to be available in Devizes town but there is no sign of anything happening in … Read More “Rural broadband verdict – too little, too late”
Hay Literary Festival may seem an odd event to be taking place in a small town of only 1500 people. … Read More “Book towns and other developments”
This is based on US data, but studies in the UK have found a broadly similar picture. Click to … Read More “Buy Local”