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@createstreets "This is the opportunity in principle & in practice. 260000 is much smaller than XXX million but it is not trivial if some of them can come back into use"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:08:15 UTC 72.7K followers, 2248 engagements

". your area's housing targets were probably near doubled and the existence of Green Belt ceased to be a meaningful "defence" against new homes. The good news is that your CAN avoid ugly & ill-located housing by appeal. Here is how:"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-22 17:21:13 UTC 72.7K followers, 1787 engagements

"Londons Nine Elms development is welcome homes but lumpish misshapen & formless. Spaces are over-enclosed & vulgar. Details are poor. Its such a waste. And yes"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 03:32:54 UTC 72.7K followers, 2371 engagements

"Once upon a time empty homes paid no or less council tax. No longer. That situation was reversed as long ago as 2013 & successive policy tightening now means that once a home has been empty for over a year high council tax premiums can be applied if councils wish"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:58:38 UTC 72.7K followers, XXX engagements

"The re-stitching and rebuilding of Dresden is one of the great stories of European civilisation of the last XX years staggeringly little known in Britain. All driven by popular preferences in the face of architectural resistance"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-18 22:38:27 UTC 72.7K followers, 8956 engagements

"From Post Office to pub. What will it be XX years hence Who knows But it will still be here. Attractive buildings recycle. Ugly buildings get thrown away"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-20 18:57:07 UTC 72.7K followers, 5410 engagements

"If you live in England particularly southern rural England in the Green Belt then the weeks before Christmas 2024 witnessed the most important announcement for your neighbourhoods future for seventy years. Why Because"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-22 17:19:44 UTC 72.7K followers, 2504 engagements

"Church Lane Ledbury Nearly every feature of this delightful street would be banned in most cities: the slope the textured surface the narrow street the lack of cars the wood-framed homes. Yet people love it. Maybe change our policies not our people 📸 Dave Jenkins"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-20 21:26:53 UTC 72.7K followers, 8727 engagements

"Make Britain Beautiful Again. Technology is on our side"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-17 23:01:33 UTC 72.7K followers, 23.2K engagements

"New homes need not be identical to old homes to be popular. But they do need to pick up the same patterns of curves texture embedded symmetries & coherent complexities that nearly all people prefer. Here is an excellent example which rhymes with the past & looks to the future"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-22 17:23:07 UTC 72.7K followers, 11.8K engagements

"It's time to weave our towns back together to restitch our streets and to undo the many crimes of traffic modernism"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-22 12:52:18 UTC 72.7K followers, 6856 engagements

"one might add: On the left: Cambridgeshires former County Council office On the right: Cambridges new County Council office Downgrade does not come close"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-24 19:50:32 UTC 72.7K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Empty homes are back in the news. The Prime Minister said we can use them to house immigrants. Is he right Do we have an empty homes problem in the UK If so what should we do about it Can we better use empty homes to house the waiting list or immigrants🧵"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 08:45:40 UTC 72.7K followers, 25.6K engagements

"What price civic pride On the left: French town hall in a modest & not hugely prosperous town On the right: Cambridgeshire County Councils recently opened new offices"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-24 19:48:46 UTC 72.7K followers, 7777 engagements

"Other empty homes are second homes about 150000 according to official statistics. This can be a problem in localised tourist hotspots particularly in the south-west and parts of Wales. (The Venice problem) But those second homes also provide local income and tourist pounds"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:05:19 UTC 72.7K followers, 1113 engagements

"Not surprisingly England has far fewer empty homes than most countries with more homes. English proportion of just X% compares to over X% in Germany nearly X% in Greece nearly X% in France & up to X or X% in Portugal Spain & Ireland. Comparatively we have v few empty homes"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:48:52 UTC 72.7K followers, 1026 engagements

"Around the world a quiet revolution is taking place. We're building beautiful cities again. Find out where why and how in our latest film with the magical @_Aesthetic_City You can watch it"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-03 22:56:07 UTC 72.7K followers, 8156 engagements

"for XX years governments have been trying to do something about empty homes with a mixture of carrots and sticks"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:53:11 UTC 72.7K followers, XXX engagements

"It is a number that has been trending upwards over the last few years up from around 200000 in 2016 though that low was after systemic long-term decline. There were 318000 empty homes back in 2004"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:33:36 UTC 72.7K followers, 1583 engagements

"Taming the traffic and beautifying the street has been transformational for the life and prosperity of Lower Marsh Lambeth"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-10 12:27:23 UTC 72.7K followers, 11K engagements

"Create corners which are comely and comfortable"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-20 22:00:22 UTC 72.7K followers, 11K engagements

"Everything in these photos is new. The greatest single act of place making & the best Gentle Density in Britain since the war"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-20 00:21:04 UTC 72.7K followers, 60.7K engagements

"People die. People get divorced. People move house. People move around country. 200000 empty homes are awaiting probate or belong to recently deceased people. 200000 have been empty for six months. Many though not all of those will shortly be back in use"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:02:58 UTC 72.7K followers, 1377 engagements

"Various governments have also encouraged local councils to put empty homes back into use with financial incentives. There is also something called an empty dwelling management order which can bring an empty home back into use. However it is hard to apply & has been little used"
@createstreets on X 2025-07-23 09:59:53 UTC 72.7K followers, XXX engagements