How Brexit Britain lost a vital asset: space
So-called left behind towns prize more “places to meet” over jobs. In Middlesbrough, they’re opening public living rooms in abandoned…
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Britain’s Lost Spaces
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Britain’s Lost Spaces
The battle for Britain’s vanishing food markets intensifies as the cost of living soars
As the cost of basic food rises in 2022, traditional “bread and butter” markets are in decline.
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Worshippers fear new high-rise towers could shroud Britain’s oldest synagogue in darkness
Developers plan to build two towering blocks alongside Bevis Marks, which relies on daylight and 240 candles for its services.
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What happens when you lose a public swimming pool?
Ageing facilities, cash-strapped councils and private competitors risk making swimming a luxury in Britain – and put swimmers in danger.
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Peasants revolt against the Duke of Northumberland amid England’s allotment revival
As demand surges for allotments during the pandemic, a battle over veg patches between west London residents and their aristocratic…
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Goodbye, Catford? When planners label your childhood haunt an “Opportunity Area”
One of the last affordable places in south-east London faces the same fate as its rapidly gentrifying surroundings.
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Inside the deprived Kent suburb paying a London advertising agency for a rebrand
Whitstable, Margate and… Newington? What it takes to stop being “left behind”.
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England’s green and forbidden lands: Nick Hayes on his battle for the public’s right to ramble
An illustrator and lifelong trespasser fights back against the English landowning elite, one walk at a time.
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