The next generation of council houses need to focus on quality and community, not just quantity
What kind of city do we want?
Cardiff is Britain’s fastest growing city. Merlin Gable calls for development that reflects the city’s long history of ethnic diversity.
The beginnings of a low carbon stimulus?
Hywel Lloyd considers the implications of the Welsh Government’s recent announcement of a capital investment package
Welsh students need more of a say on the education they receive
NUS Wales President Rob Simkins discusses the importance of student partnership and his priorities for the year ahead.
A breath of fresh air
Marking clean air day, Steve Brooks outlines how a new approach to planning can promote healthier towns
Facing the climate change challenge in housing
Sarah Scotcher reflects on how the social housing sector can meet its own pledge that all homes are at a near-zero-carbon standard by 2036
What influences Local and Community Engagement in Renewable Energy in Wales?
Professor Judith Marquand introduces a new research report from the IWA’s Re-energising Wales project
We need to talk about social housing
Leanne Wood sets out priority actions for meeting housing needs in Wales
‘Jasmine Park’: Housing and the eradication of place in north east Wales
Simon Gwyn Roberts reflects on how Welsh identity looks and feels different in different parts of Wales and argues that in Anglo-Welsh border areas we might do well to celebrate cultural diversity at a micro scale, where it becomes about locality and what makes that locality distinctive.