Jamie Risner
@jamierisner
MEP Design - Arup - Decarbonisation - Heat Pumps - Co-operator - Cycling - Sheffield - Passivhaus - Decentralisation of Power - ⚔️
Scotland has done a little better apparently What can Scotland teach Andy Burnham about devolution? | Future Economy Scotland share.google/nEz54S7eKcRC...
France & Japan have powerful regional and local government that we don't. Some useful context here: subnational-government-in-england-international-comparison.pdf share.google/AIAlCn5HEyC8... There are 5M people in NZ... I can't see the case for centralisation, but then - you're not making it.
Manchester does just have a bigger catchment area as well, not a small thing that Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool are all closely interconnected with Manchester. Whereas Brum has.... Coventry?
Alltwen was a mistype of "all the"... sorry! I'm working on a big heritage building in Sheffield and discovered it was one of the first buildings in the UK to install radiators in 1897. But when they extended the building in 1923.... they installed fireplaces.
#ShowYourStripes is pretty sobering for Sheffield - a great reminder of the urgency to decarbonise our buildings showyourstripes.info #Sheffield