Newsletter #03: Frontline housing, StoptheSCANdal, and Community Theatre

2023 has been a rollercoaster of a year so far for West Yorkshire and the country writ large. Politically, a new Prime Minister in Rishi …

Newsletter #01: Community Arts, Alternative Housing, and the Importance of Planners

Hi everyone,

My name's George, I'm a freelance writer and tutor, and I've recently been working with Same Skies, focusing particularly on participation in political …

Planning and Housing - An alternative approach: Community and collaboration across boundaries

The UK has a housing crisis, and here in West Yorkshire, with an area covered by five local authorities and around 2.5 million people …

Local shops as places for connecting

I have always had a socialist bent, from that young child being swiftly pulled along past a homeless person by my mum, as she explains …