Shelter Thisisme Its not rocket science ,is it ? New homes from old.existing ones Rebuild communities not build on green spaces

🚨 There are 261,000 long-term empty homes in England.

Meanwhile, we desperately need more social homes.

While nowhere near enough by itself to end the housing emergency, converting empty homes into social homes would help kickstart the delivery of homes we desperately need. 🧵

Guess which bit is no longer grade 1 farmland 😢 Thanks to St John's College, Cambridge the village will have a carbuncle of red brick attached on one side. There were skylarks here last year ☹️😢

Save Our Fields, Westgate & Garlinge, Kent 🍃💚🍃 Environment Agency Crimestoppers Ha! Yes people used that line and other routes at the outset. Yet they watched the criminals dump the waste for 6 months in Hoad's Wood. It was the same at other sites like Eastchurch Gap SSSI beach on the Isle of Sheppey. It should be renamed 'Inaction Line'!

This article also from this morning. In Thanet we have an accessible Nature Reserve but National Grid want to develop through the area & build an enormous converter station next to it in a wildlife rich area beloved by locals.bbc.com/news/articles/…

‘The challenges facing the county are set against the backdrop of a population growing faster than the national average’. Kent. Thanet. Build build build. bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks

Spoiler : Thames and Southern have over a third of network unmapped.

ft.com/content/cdda3b… via @ft

Rather apt description of every single water industry executive in the country I’d suggest. 🤣

Today's reminder of why commercial house building is a poor way of creating 'affordable' (in reality, mostly just slightly less unaffordable) housing, let alone the social-rent housing we desperately need.

Quality of Biodiversity Net Gain on large developments likely to be ‘quite low’ after 30 years, says council report.

A BNG update, prepared for councillors in Cambridge and South Cambs, says this is because much of it will be ‘created as public open space’.

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“Whoever controls the food supply controls the people.”

Society can only survive and fully function with a robust and ample food supply & security. All roads lead from that. That’s why supporting farmers and farming is probably the most important campaign in this era. Without

“The EA says there is “no single cause” and that it has identified a number of sources, including dog and bird faeces and people misconnecting toilets and showers.” 🤔 Fears that do-not-swim warnings on beaches could be in place for years
kentonline.co.uk/romney-marsh/n…

Just another farm up for sale for development here in Thanet, courtesy of St John's College, Cambridge yet again “Crumps Farm in St Nicholas-at-Wade put on sale market with Savills” #FoodSecurity CPRE Kent theisleofthanetnews.com/2024/04/16/cru…

Stark recognition on Farming Today of food security risks of climate change. Eg Oilseed rape will be 38% down this year but olive oil for import is shooting up in price due to drought.
Vegetable supply also an issue due to rain/floods this year.
#foodsecurity

Terrifying ⬇️ #FoodSecurity

Farms don’t have any wildlife on them at all do they? 🙄🙄⬇️⬇️⬇️ saveourfarms 🍃💚🍃 Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧

No Farmers, No Food 10000 houses here. There is more but these are the large developments. We should be maintaining Geographic spread of production to reduce risk. None of this has been assessed & housing developments continue to be put forward. Kent projection is +30% housing.

No Farmers, No Food Building in Thanet includes much tenanted land including 3000 houses courtesy of St John's College, Cambridge