There are ways the gov could help if it actually wanted to change things. One obvious one is to tilt the planning playing field, particularly for industry. Make it really cheap/easy to build industri… (View Post)

Farm buildings are very much on the radar. Change of use is trivial if they are over ten years old, and under 500sqm (which I could just about live with - we are in about 300sqm now, and it's not a w… (View Post)

I run a SME currently employing 5 people. I would like to employ more, I've an order-book that's full for over 2 years, but we can't really expand any more as I'm running out of space in our present … (View Post)

Kerr Stuart 4388 particularly so - built in Stoke, worked at Eturia gas works, then Brookside Foundry (which was what Kerr Stuart's works became after they went bust). Then it's called Foxfield home … (View Post)

Foxfield, Stoke-on-Trent. Locos are both four coupled - Marston Thompson and Evershed Ltd No3 in the background, and Kerr Stuart 4388 in the foreground. (View Post)