Neighbourhood & Civic Life
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The street you live on.
About this space
The street you actually live on. Planning applications, transport, housing, local government and organising that changes something within walking distance. Posts here tend to come with timelines: who was written to, what was ignored, and what finally worked.
Topics
- Planning
- Transport
- Housing
- Organising
Recent discussions
- How did your neighbourhood get shade and seating added to a busy health centre queue?Question · Planning · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- How do other cities get night-shift workers home safely at 3 in the morning?Question · Transport · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 replies
- After Yolanda we learned to keep a list of who needs carrying outOrganising · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 replies
- Buying 'rights' to untitled land: what families in Batangas often misunderstandHousing · Oct 25, 2026 · 4 replies
- Parking minimums almost kept a bakery out of our empty downtown storefrontPlanning · Oct 24, 2026 · 4 replies
- Has anyone seen an office-to-housing conversion actually pencil out?Question · Housing · Oct 24, 2026 · 7 replies
- Scam-awareness sessions for seniors at the barangay hall: the format that finally workedOrganising · Oct 24, 2026 · 5 replies
- Planning application next door and I have ten daysQuestion · Planning · Sep 30, 2026 · 7 replies
- The cheapest transport fix is usually a bollardTransport · Sep 21, 2026 · 12 replies
- How forty neighbours got a crossing builtOrganising · Sep 11, 2026 · 8 replies
- Housing: a small thing I am quietly pleased withHousing · Sep 8, 2026 · 7 replies
- Transport: where would you tell a beginner to start?Question · Transport · Sep 6, 2026 · 3 replies
- Planning: how do you keep going past the interesting part?Question · Planning · Sep 4, 2026 · 4 replies
- Planning: the best money I could spend right now?Question · Planning · Sep 3, 2026 · 9 replies
- Organising: the advice I had to unlearnOrganising · Sep 1, 2026 · 8 replies
- Transport: what has actually changed in the last year?Transport · Aug 19, 2026 · 3 replies
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