Discipline Lead for Planning & Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at University of Liverpoolhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lzdpihlybs2m@livuniplanning.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/posts/planning-at-the-university-of-liverpool_a-nice-tour-of-liverpools-waterfront-yesterday-activity-7375274134391508992-fnuk?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAABiA7sMBRcpZEBlN1MBPWYJt5NdL9ClbpXg&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link21 Sep 2025 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzdpihlybs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lnbkrfcmvk2uHappy Easter to all! 🐣20 Apr 2025 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnbkrfcmvk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lkhd7gzt6c24At Llanfairfechan tonight for the final Calan concert in North Wales.15 Mar 2025 23:55 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkhd7gzt6c24https://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3li4vjfj4222nThe New Town skiffle group pictured in 1960! Can we look forward to a wave of ‘New Tunes’ now that New Towns are on the agenda again in England? We need something as we are past the usual ‘decade + 4’ rule when music usually begins to sort itself out in a decade! 😉🎶🎸14 Feb 2025 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3li4vjfj4222nhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lgbfmhyxcs2ySo kind of colleagues and students to organise a surprise book cake for my 50th. Birthday today! Thanks everyone!21 Jan 2025 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbfmhyxcs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lft2ktefbk2vStunning winter sunset. Liverpool 15.01.25.16 Jan 2025 00:46 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lft2ktefbk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lft2idcxhc2vMisty morning meadows Liverpool. 15.01.2516 Jan 2025 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lft2idcxhc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lf44m7teas2fNorth Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 jaunt to Eryri National Park for New Year 2025.06 Jan 2025 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf44m7teas2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lefehvasu22fA few views from the Saint John’s Beacon in Liverpool before it closes indefinitely to visitors on 31.12.2024. Not the best weather but still worth it!28 Dec 2024 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lefehvasu22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lee4jhcfs223Atmospheric Liverpool in the end of year fog.28 Dec 2024 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lee4jhcfs223https://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lebrlgvxc22lDid someone say something about supporting U.K. farmers? We look forward to seeing Whitehall crammed with tractors sporting EU flags and rejoin banners in the New Year! And wall-to-wall media coverage on the news channels and in the newspapers… 🚜🇪🇺27 Dec 2024 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lebrlgvxc22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3ldv66abxrs2c@livuniplanning.bsky.social22 Dec 2024 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldv66abxrs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lczdzrzih22m@livuniplanning.bsky.social Well done to all our Planning at the University of Liverpool graduates who graduated yesterday at the December University of Liverpool graduation ceremony! Students from all our programmes passed across the stage at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.11 Dec 2024 08:36 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lczdzrzih22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lcj23hbsns2eGreat, the far left working with the far right in France to sow chaos… And as history shows that always benefits progressive agendas right? 🤷‍♂️🤔🤦‍♂️🤡🥀04 Dec 2024 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcj23hbsns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lcgvnvawe22dAt a time when local government funding and planning in England under a new government is in the news, this new chapter with @alexnurse.bsky.social, Sebastian Dembski, and Chris Couch takes a 'long view' on nearly half a century of regeneration policy in England. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-64773-4_204 Dec 2024 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcgvnvawe22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lc23rsm2nc2jA complex and contested figure Mr. Churchill but the last line of this still resonates strongly today.28 Nov 2024 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc23rsm2nc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lbkucdpblc2kThis is getting there. At 100,000 signatures this will be considered for debate in Parliament. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-y7_u3vY6b7Q4SIW0YkkaMkqZIXW0Msa1jcXpCWSTlJkgB6_SW4usXhQ_aem_nNls707uhYuqNWR2q4Aifg22 Nov 2024 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkucdpblc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lbiftav6jk23Interesting contrast between the amount of coverage the news channels gave to the Inheritance Tax protests on Tuesday in the U.K. and that which was given to the repeated anti-‘Brexit’ protests - the largest of which had between 1.5 and 2 million marchers… If you want to talk about diddly squat…21 Nov 2024 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbiftav6jk23https://bsky.app/profile/oliviersykes.bsky.social/post/3lbbxvbdmd22uWhat a fail… How is the aspiration to be ‘Global Britain’ 😉 supposed to begin by cutting oneself off from the parts of the globe closest to Britain? 🤷‍♂️19 Nov 2024 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:7bdbypg3gqiuixjph5fmktx7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbbxvbdmd22u