Peter Cleasby

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Why does a large bus company consider it's ok to ignore the law? Make up your mind after reading theexefiles.com/2025/11/02/l...

The county council which dislikes the public so much that it resorts to illegality to keep us away. Read the story at theexefiles.com/2025/09/30/i...

The Council’s (Tax) Dilemma If other parts of England are pursuing similar ambitions as Exeter City Council then proposals for reorganising local government risk being derailed once people understand the council tax implicati…

Is #counciltax going to get your council into trouble over its local govt reorganisation plans? Read about the dilemma facing @exetercouncil.bsky.social at petercleasby.com/2025/08/30/c... ‪‪@jimmcmahon.co.uk‬ ‪‪@local.gov.uk‬ ‪@exmouthjournal.bsky.social‬ ‪@steveracemp.bsky.social‬

Keep Musk out of the UK energy supply industry please! Sign the petition at 38d.gs/z4fz, background at www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well done to @gwr.com who when faced with two cancelled Exeter-bound connections from Taunton managed to reallocate a train and crew that had terminated at Taunton on schedule to replace the GWR cancellation. Pity that @crosscountryuk.bsky.social couldn't manage a similar response.

This ghastly self-seeking man has breached most of the Seven Principles of Public Life and yet not a whiff of sanction or disapproval from the Labour Party.

I’m not convinced this generation of Labour politicians has it in them to be completely honest with the public. But if they aren’t they will only succeed in handing power to those who are very happy to give them the Big Lie.

Retail (including ikea) with housing above and metro beneath

Varied and interesting architecture, strong public realm

Beautiful central linear park

Before and after from Carlos Moreno, who toured me. @carlosmoreno.bsky.social

This new Paris neighbourhood is VERY good. Clichy-Batignolles (former rail yard), 1 of many transformations at Metro transit stations around the city. Dense+mixed (urban IKEA, grocery store, schools, jobs etc), diverse (50% public housing, 20% middle class rental), 1/3rd beautiful park, 20k people.

Avant / Après le changement de la Rue de Clichy dans le 9ème arrondissement de Paris

From here to a legacy The new leadership at Devon County Council has a chance to restore trust in local politicians. Will it seize and succeed? An election result seems as good a place to (re)start as any. Not being a f…

The new leadership at Devon County Council has a chance to restore trust in local politicians. Will it seize and succeed? My latest blog explores. agreeninexeter.com/2025/05/12/f... #devon #elections @exetergreens.bsky.social

Indeed it could except that the present @exetercouncil.bsky.social has no powers - they rest (sic) with #Devon county council. The forthcoming reorganization gives #Exeter the chance to become a unitary council with local transport and planning powers. #bettertransport #lgr

What a wally! He became a councillor yet clearly has no sense of civic responsibility. Achievements in office? Remember that Barnes was chair of Exeter HATOC at the time of last year's car crash over the low traffic neighbourhood.

Exeter Labour has some form on this as those who can remember Councillor Lewis Keen in St David's Ward can attest. I wrote up the saga at agreeninexeter.com/2019/03/31/n...

Before / After Rue Vauvenargues in Paris, full of cars before, pedestrianized with a black dog at the center of the image, after

"Hey, hey, Mayor, said the way we move
Gonna shape our streets, gonna make them groove"
- Black Dog in Paris

Has Devon CC learned nothing? Consultation on these schemes is to be limited to a narrow band of "stakeholders". Local transport authorities are now perceived to be so bad at community engagement that the government has today issued guidance on how to do it - www.gov.uk/government/p...

The government is understandably in a hurry but risks making a profound mess of local government and diverting effort from its new homes target. Read more at petercleasby.com/2025/02/05/w...

Montmartre under cars vs. Montmartre under the rain. I'll make some other before-and-after shots another time when there are more people because here it can be far more crowded than that ;)

Same story with Grafton street, Dublin, in the 1970’s.
It is now one of the most successful retail areas in Europe, commanding the highest rents. Despite this, local businesses still put up huge objections to all efforts to expand pedestrian areas in the city.

The world famous Strøget pedestrian shopping street in Copenhagen, from the air, filled with people.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Whose Council? Exeter City Council appears to believe that the public it serves has no role in contributing to decisions on how it functions. All Councils have constitutions which set out how they must do their b…

I'd be surprised if @exetercouncil.bsky.social is the only council to believe that the public it serves has no role in contributing to decisions on how it functions; but that doesn't justify its position. Read more at agreeninexeter.com/2025/01/27/w...

Excellent and thoughtful. Let's have some of this in #Devon

And these people think they should run *all* of Devon's services after the reorganization of local government. Time for commissioners to be sent in? #failingcouncils

I probably should have said *large* urban. Here in Devon there are no community or parish councils in Exeter snd Plymouth. I'm fairly sure there are none in London below the borough tier, and a very small number in the major conurbations

Agreed, but not surprising. How many urban areas have this 3rd tier of government? If @exetercouncil.bsky.social becomes some sort of unitary, I for one will be lobbying for a truly local tier below it.

I agree. I wasn't doing down cyclists nor arguing in favour of motorised transport over other modes.

It astonishes me that councillors will vote through a budget without knowing the impacts on individual services. And it's time councils dispensed with spin and told us the truth, instead of leaving it to investigative journalists. #devon #councils #openness

It's a valid complaint. Should 20 people be required to cede priority to 1 ? But I agree we need different infrastructure.