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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

From report online tomorrow, particularly interesting feedback on sense of community cohesion, which may not have been an anticipated attribute of btr. www.qolf.org #buildtorent #btr #qualityoflife #housing #neighbourhoods

Slide from presentation shows 71.1% respondents agree with "My local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together"

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Report launched today and available online tomorrow www.qolf.org #buildtorent #btr #qualityoflife #housing #neighbourhoods

Social Impact of Build to Rent: Quality of Life Foundation Report Launch, presented by Matthew Morgan at BPF

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Being on the Board of the organisation behind #HousingDesignAwards I am proud to share this announcement from our highly committed CEO David Birkbeck who has now secured the Chief Planner Joanna Averley as chair of the Awards. hdawards.org

hdawards.org

Housing Design Awards

Housing Design Awards is the longest running programme in the world focussed on finding the best new residential communities.

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This video was made by a group who were only able to visit us because we were able to offer a bursary to subsidise their programme, so thank you to everyone who supports Brathay in whatever way, and to the fantastic team working with Teresa Jennings

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Orkney Library - since 1683 - how amazing is that?!! 💙

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Caught up with this one today. @dranniegray.bsky.social @vickypayne.bsky.social on fine form, combining interesting little gems with pointers to deeper research. Omnicrisis and opportunity, but substantial failure rates a worry to be addressed central / local govt.

bbc.co.uk

Start the Week - The high street - BBC Sounds

Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This one isn’t as colourful, but look at how SHARP it is. So sharp it can’t be real. I took it last week though, so it is! 4 ½ brick lengths in its leading edge. Corner Marion St / Argyle St, #Birkenhead

3-storey victorian building sharply triangular in plan, with a leading edge only 4 ½ brick lengths wide

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I also liked the little green signs on the planted steps, when I went for a wander last week

Timber planters lining the brick gabian steps with a sign that reads “Ouseburn Green Spaces
The seating and planters on Riverside walk provide a home for wildlife and a place for people to rest and relax. They are looker after by volunteer groups and local people”

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Hana Loftus @hanaloftus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yes...thank you Caitlin!!

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My drawings in 1st year Building Surveying Liverpool polytechnic

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Special mention must be made of @jaimieferg.bsky.social who told me, back in 2021, his thoughts for a park in the unique Dock Branch. This discontinued railway line winds its way through, and below, the stunning Georgian grid of streets that formed Laird’s Birkenhead in the 1840’s. A special place 💎

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

This is very welcome news Graham. There is much to do and I firmly believe that the Community Panel is an essential contributor to lasting regeneration of this special place, their home town. Time to turn the volume up to 11

Birkenhead’s Dock Branch Neighbourhood Community Panel group photo as at November ‘23 on a study visit to Sunderland’s Sunniside area

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

“In July, Bluesky's monthly active user base stood at about 688,568, a fraction of X's base of 76.9 million…” After 15 years on the OTHER platform, feeling great to be part of something fresh

Photoshopped still from the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, with the John Cleese character holding the parrot changed to Musk’s face and an upturned, expired blue twitter bird replacing the eponymous parrot in Cleese’s / Musk’s hand.
Michael Palin’s shopkeeper says “”It was alive when you bought it”

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

I’m not a “dog person” but quite a few of my friends are and I’ve witnessed their pain and deep sadness at these moments. I’m sorry for your and your family’s loss Jaimie.

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bwildered2 🚩 @bwildered2.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

A meme is born.

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

@tcmurray tweet I had pinned, now cc here ♥️ “I finally felt like I belonged somewhere.” Voice of locals and developer in fresh article on housing in The Malings, Ouseburn, Newcastle 5 years since completion plus concerns about its future by journalist Loujane Alasi thedeveloper.live/opinion/opinio…

thedeveloper.live

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

…It has become the easiest platform to find Hamas terrorist videos since the October 7 attack, alongside neo-Nazi incitement, vicious antisemitism and the harmful spreading of false information, all amplified via paid-for blue tick accounts. The damage it is doing is blatant and cannot be denied."

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

From the Times: according to the Community Security Trust (a charity that protects British Jews and other UK groups from antisemitism, muslim-hate and related threats) "The amount of extreme, hateful content on X has increased dramatically over the past year…

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

So I’ve now moved to bluesky.social and will be hoping some of my followers may also across from darkness into the light! Not as good as Twitter for functionality perhaps (?) but good enough. I just can’t support Musk any more, with clincher being an article in today’s Times

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David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Hello bluesky friends! After much prevaricating I have started the process of leaving Twitter, because of what Musk is saying, doing and not doing on and about the platform. I tried moving to Mastodon last year, but that was too geeky to work for me.

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