Today's beautiful reminder to cherish and protect the rural landscape:

NEW CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 survey! We want to hear what YOU, our supporters, think about the state of planning. We're thankful to the University of Reading who will carry out the analysis for us. CLICK HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"Planning bodies say housebuilders have a surplus of planning approvals & the only barrier to an increase in housing starts is the economic slowdown & the reluctance of developers to jeopardise high prices by flooding the market with new homes." theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

The Community Planning Alliance wants to know what YOU think of the current planning system - there's a link to their survey below

A decade lost, £millions squandered, and now the final 1.6 miles. Whether turtle doves and martins have a home to return to next spring – and whether we leave a liveable planet for the next generation – hangs on the Public Inquiry starting *16th September 2025* and the final

Dan Neidle I wonder if you or any of your Tax Policy Associates could comment on this suggestion? Is it something that you would consider adding to your ”Tax Longlist” (taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/18/the…)? CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎

Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🍃🌳🚲💧 CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 Happy to help! I’ll fill out the survey and make sure to highlight the need to put protection for British farmland and nature at the forefront of UK planning.

This beautiful farmland landscape in Bedfordshire is at risk of being destroyed with 1,900 acres of solar panels. The site is larger than 1,000 football pitches. This is wrong on so many different levels.

Research reveals 24 most important landscapes for freshwater wildlife. 🦎🐸🐌🐝🪲🦋 freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/most-impo…

CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 QUIMBIES!.. People asking for QUALITY in their backyard! How emotion, protest and media can help us build better, more human cities. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/ Plus Richard Curtis’s advice on campaigning, though you’re good at that already! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Welcome news: Department for Transport has confirmed £104m for local authorities to improve transport in towns/rural areas, where journeys are often difficult. With 70% of trips under 5 miles, properly resourced local authorities are vital to improving transport. gov.uk/government/new…

Today's reminder that supply of housing is only one small factor in house prices among many others. theguardian.com/money/2025/sep…

The government have responded to this petition to change the new Grey Belt planning rules as it reached over 10,000 signatures. Answer was "Computer says No"! If it reaches 100,000 signatures by Nov, then it will hopefully be debated in the House. Please share!

A “green belt backlash" 40 Labour seats under threat as their planning frenzy harms countryside and nature! Irony alert: Just relaxing planning doesn't get houses built. express.co.uk/news/politics/…

And again....!

"We plant a lot of trees," Nick Harris, National Highways. The A14 trees: three-quarters of the 850,000 saplings planted to replace veteran trees felled for the project died transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-highw…

Over 130 responses already to our CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 survey. 3 reasons why your responses are invaluable: i. help us to campaign for change ii. help us to understand your campaigns iii. inform talks & presentations forms.gle/VBefiNigW8GGwb…

"Because housing is not produced in a neutral system. It’s produced within a capitalist economy, where the flow of money is driven by profit, not by human need" illuminem.com/illuminemvoice… CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎

Housing, Communities and Local Government - oh wait!

Govt is trying to open up the Green Belt/MOL for 'development'. Please sign this petition to close the worrying loopholes. The 'growthists' will always be back for more - until enough people just say NO and stop voting for them all.