Housing in Wales: Time for Honesty
As regular readers will be aware, I have recently focused on planning and housing in Wales, more specifically, the data being used to forecast how many new homes Wales will ‘need’ over the next couple...
View ArticleHousing in Carmarthenshire
There was a piece in today’s WalesOnline by Graham Henry telling us that Wales needs a few hundred thousand more dwellings than are currently planned. I don’t know who fed him the story, but I suspect...
View ArticleHousing: Some Clarification
I hope I can explain this without it getting too complicated. Here goes . . . In a number of recent posts I have stressed the importance of household size / composition in determining how many new...
View ArticleHousing In Wales – Back To The Drawing Board!
In a number of recent posts – work back from here – I have criticised the projections made by the Knowledge and Analytical Services (KAS), a unit based in Cardiff but answering to the Department for...
View ArticleBodelwyddan and the Bigger Picture
I had intended putting this out on Twitter or Facebook, just to inform people that the deadline for representations on the planned 1,700 new homes at Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire has been extended to...
View ArticleThe Destructive Power of Tourism
A few days ago I was directed to a piece on the MailOnline website about Barcelona or, more specifically, tourism in Barcelona or, to be really, really specific, high volume and damaging tourism. The...
View ArticleThe Cardiff Local Development Plan
‘Jac writing about Cardiff!’ I hear you exclaim, before dropping your coffee in your lap. Yes, and I’m not even going to gloat over certain sporting matters. I’m writing this post because the Cardiff...
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