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 …

What do Active Travel Neighbourhoods have to do with student waste?

Community Action on Waste was created in an attempt to pilot long term change to the way our streets are treated; with particular focus on …

A journey that ends in Northumbria?

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I knew that we’d been let down. I knew that our talent and our ideas and our potential was being wasted. I knew …

What does the West Yorkshire devolution deal mean for our region?

Ryan Swift gives our first response to the West Yorkshire devolution deal.

This week it was an announced that a West Yorkshire devolution deal has …

"It is about checks and balances"

When we launched our collaborative book of hopeful ideas for Regional Democracy from West Yorkshire, we wanted to promote debate. If you haven't yet downloaded …

Leeds Kirkgate Market - our neighbourhood, our regional democracy

From the very beginning, Same Skies has been about building Regional Democracy up from the good stuff around us here. We are our own region …