Key design principle here in Tortuguero, Costa Rica: no cars, only cargo bikes

UK is ashamed of its beautiful traditional architecture. Even Cheltenham, with its renowned Regency heritage signposted from all routes, has a council that decrees sites must be contemporary rather than traditional in style. It’s destroying the town’s coherence and uniqueness.

An Ikonic scene in Birmingham

The results were very clear with an unambiguous public preference for the red brick design. The British public overwhelmingly preferred the red brick arch design by 69% to 28%. And there's even better news...

What railway bridge would you rather was built near you? This is what the British public think. And here’s why it matters if we want to #GetBritainBuilding and #CreateConsensus that transcends politics … 🧵 ⬇️

Shrubbery Avenue. Recognised for its high quality late C19 and C20 architecture.

Why local communities should have more say on what gets built near them - in two new pictures

Somerset vernacular ? Via Donald Rice

Oh Birmingham, what have you become?

The Electric Cinema (1908, rebuilt 1937) - reputedly the oldest working cinema in England - closed its doors yesterday, with reports locally that a 50 storey tower block is planned for the site.

The Hostile Environment for Heritage continues

What a sad day for our city. The Electric somehow felt right in Birmingham - a quirky, historic, place in a quirky, historic, city birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats…

Here's the story of how our design for beautiful Devon homes around a village green increased permitted homes from 34 to 44 (50% affordable) whilst winning rave reviews from the planning committee. Comments included...

This is important and exactly why live bus timetables are essential to encouraging more people to use public transport. The fact you can now live track buses I think would improve most people’s satisfaction of using buses in Worcester.

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🚨 CROOKED HOUSE ORDERED TO BE REBUILT 🚨

An enforcement notice has been issued against the owners for its unlawful demolition.

They have been ordered to rebuild the pub back to what it was before the fire - just as we’ve been lobbying for.

Fantastic work from South Staffordshire Council 👏🏻

See how much you can fit in 12m2, the average size of a parking space.

It's unbelievable we are wasting so much valuable space on parking cars.

Play with it here: 12m2.org

A Ghost Sign Restored. The first picture shows a faded ghost sign by the entrance gate of Eaton Mews West, where a Horse Infirmary once was. At some point it was decided to rejuvenate the faded sign, which restores our knowledge of what was once here.

The English built environment still never ceases to amaze

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Amazing record of Shrewsbury: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

planning documents are rarely works of art, but I actually love this cover of last year's Wandsworth Local Plan. More of this please!

Grosvenor Crescent