On YIMBY Pod this week:
We talk about Andy Burnham’s big plans to devolve power across the country – and focus on the most important issues, like integrated transport ticketing and whether or not the boundary lines are consistent.
And we speak to Jamie Airnes, CEO of Cornish Lithium, about his ambitious plan to make Cornwall central to the battery supply chain.
This week James wrote about why people are arguing about Net Zero badly – and what the real debate over the policy is about.
Martin’s piece on ‘picky bits’ and national decline is here, and his YouTube channel is here.
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Big fan of the podcast and agree with the thrust of Martin's argument about the dangers to democracy of local council budget's increasingly going on statutory adult social care and children's services. But I wasn't sure where he got the stat that a third of his council tax is going on SEND transport. I know he lives in Bedfordshire; I had a look at Central Bedfordshire and it seems to be less than 10% of their revenue budget. For Bedford their total revenue budget spent on children with SEND seems to be around 25% - a third spent on just the transport seems very high.
With you all the way on "picky bits"