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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

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 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

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 pop

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

“Hold a question in your mind and allow nature to answer it by simply listening with all your senses.  Let it lead the way in this next step in your life”.  Those were the instructions I was given, one sunny day in July in a protected natural woodland enclosure beside