It's not planning approvals we need to fix. It’s planning applications, and that decision is down to developers.

How embarrassing can it possible be to say you are going to cut sewage dumping by 50% by 2030 only to realise that announcement had already been made by Ofwat over 1 year ago and that your new target is actually worse than the old one. OOPS!!!

I mean honestly Speechless that Ministers talk like this (Also, with pylons, it isn’t just views) independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Heathrow third runway ‘won’t be cheap’, says chief executive - You can say that again. It will be seriously expensive in environmental damage, not to mention displacing some 15,000 people from their homes on.ft.com/3TV8r0X via Financial Times

What a shambles! HS2 Ltd put the route through here using out of date maps! They didn't know the estate was even there. Some of it hadn't even been built. Another shining example of #hs2 incompetence causing misery to anyone in it's way

Clive Lewis MP Clive….thats horribly naive. You are the reason for the mess on #hs2 eg the Civil Service designed the route and set the specification over poor ground. We told MPs this in 2015…..check Hansard. They didn’t involve private sector until 2018 after you fell for their lies!

Clive Lewis MP Clive Lewis MP - Who approved & issued the cost plus contracts - Ministers & Civil Servants Exec pay at HS2 Ltd is approved by DfT Cancelled halfway due to eye watering spiralling costs - Nusrat Ghani MP & Damn Burnadebt Kelly lied to parliament multiple times to get phase 2a passed

Clive Lewis MP Your complete lack of knowledge of how HS2 ended up such as mess is symptomatic of how #HS2 ended up such a mess. Out of control civil servants and MPs who were more interested in lobbyists fantasies than facts guaranteed it'd be a disaster well before contracts were signed.

86 deregulated Free zones. 12 Freeports. 74 SEZs. UK councils are about to lose control of land and assets to corporate lobbyists. My Parliament petition calling for a full transparency review is now live. Deadline: 30 Dec 2025. Please sign and share as widely as possible. Thank

Excellent article about HS2 & the Labour government’s poor decision making that led up to infamous £100m bat tunnel. And the dangerous spin behind deregulation - Bat Conservation Trust bats.org.uk/news/2025/04/h…

Let's squander some farmland and biodiversity to build a new town with low-density sprawl, a crap bus service and next to a noisy airport and racing circuit. What a wonderful vision of the future. 🤢 tinyurl.com/ycseczrf

Highways chief hits out at 'offshore' companies managing new-build estate roads derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-new…

He can deregulate as much as he wants but the houses won't get built. He can get as furious as he wants with bats, snails and nimbys, but that won't help. What he actually needs to do is calm down and speak to CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 about what the housing crisis really is (and how to

The benefits of reopening the line to Cowley in Oxford seem somewhat exaggerated. A station is only as good as its network connections, frequency & surroundings bbc.com/news/articles/…

A new book about HS2. "Off the Rails" by Sally Gimson to be published on 28th August. I will be looking at it closely to see whether it misses anything. How will the saga end? Review here literaryreview.co.uk/one-track-minds

Mary Whitby 🇵🇸 Looking on legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/184/… you can find the Statutory Instruments with a number and corresponding signatures, I've put a few below, it seems pairs of Lords and Baronesses sign multiple tax sites in different regions of the UK. There are additional categories relevant to

Max Abdulgani 14/2/25 Inst for Public Policy Research: Strategic planning for green prosperity. Since 2007 developers gained 1.4m planning permissions which remain unbuilt. Land is investment commodity +build rates need to slow to boost prices. Red tape not a problem! ippr.org/articles/strat…

Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 LAND has a unique value-extracting macro-economic role & an infinitely flexible value. Just building houses is a normal profit-making activity. The big money is in financialised land speculation, geared inflationary gains, & capturing Planning rules to enable more valuable uses.

Developers seeking to find out objections so they can try & address them. National Highways should not be able to approve a new junction that will make J21 even worse. This is led by logistics interests. leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-new…