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Helping shape the planning process: Transition Market Harborough

Darren Woodiwiss of Transition Market Harborough reports on the group’s attempts to influence development in their town, which have focused on the one remaining undeveloped site in the town… “Market Harborough is a picturesque market town situated in South Leicestershire nestled up against the Northamptonshire border. It is a

GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’s first urban mushroom farm. City centres are full of unused office space, either due to lack of demand, or due to developers mothballing them for future development. What use might be found for them? And might

Paul Chatterton on Lilac Leeds Co-housing

Paul Chatterton is one of the founders of the Lilac Cohousing project in Leeds. BY day he works as a geographer at Leeds University. Lilac is a fascinating model for a new, more equitable and ecological approach to providing affordable housing. When we met Paul to learn more, we started

Our month on rethinking real estate: Why I’m proud to be a SWIMBY

You’re passing a field and you see a large hoarding bearing the words ‘New Homes Coming Soon’. What feelings do those words inspire? Delight to see ‘economic activity’ underway? Thrilled that ‘place-making’ is happening? Or a sense of despair, impotence and violation? As more and more such signs

October 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Getting connected in different ways seems to be a thread in the stories in the newsletter this month. Firstly the website theme of “Making Space for Nature” has a range of interviews and articles, then our world round-up plus the Transition hubs get together. Several takes on the Climate

Coming Soon! The First Transition Network Roadshow – St. Andrews!

Following our successful pilot in Lancaster, Transition Network is on the road, and the next stop is St Andrews, Scotland, October 10/11th, 2014. We’d love you to join us. In collaboration with Transition St Andrews, it will take place with Transition Network’s trademark, participatory conference style of

Transitioners’ Digest (September 2014)

This month we have been exploring the theme of “Making Space for Nature” from a wide range of different angles. We started with an editorial piece which argued that one of the key things that nature can bring our work doing Transition is a sense of wonder. Something to do