After putting in a Freedom Of Information request, the minutes for the East Sussex County Council Pension Fund Investment Panel - from 1974 to 2007 - have been released for the first time. As I noted in my analysis of the minutes:
My friend, Lisa Lewinsohn, has just written her thesis at the Centre for Alternative Technology on Planning Policy and Low Impact Developments - What are the planning barriers to low impact developments in rural areas in Britain and how might they be overcome? (.pdf 1.4MB).

I have been helping out in Cranks, a community bike workshop in Brighton, since last September. A few days ago I sent the email below to our mailing list about the politics of Cranks. I thought I'd put it online because it reflects some of my current thinking as well as giving an insiders view of Cranks. Yesterday we discussed some of the points in the email in a group meeting. I'll be posting in a few days some of the outcomes from the meeting and my thoughts on them.