Interesting how the #YimbyLobby is now attacking protection of nature, along with heritage, food and water production etc., in its campaign to give builders a profitable free rein by smashing #planning .

Brilliant innovation from Civic Square - this incredible team really knows how to turn ideas for the future into action for our times.

Looks like magical thinking on planning around water scarcity.

#Nature related risks are as impactful as risks driven by GHG emissions. New analysis led by the GFI shows that nature loss could lead to an estimated 12% loss of GDP in the coming years - a larger impact than the global financial crisis or #COVID19 .

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'Due to several ongoing new build projects in the local area and an expanding Abingdon population we are not able to take on patients...' #InfrastructureFirst oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24097833.…

'Because of the congestion caused by the LTN we are selling our house in Jesmond and moving away,' said some anti-LTNers. The LTN was then removed by NewcastleCityCouncil yet — zero surprise — still there's congestion. Are those complainers still thinking of upping sticks, then?

'Since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion'

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BIG NEWS: On 22nd June, CPA will join the march for nature! ✊

Will you be there too and demand action?

Spread the word.

Together, we can #RestoreNatureNow .

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Why haven't house prices remained around 8x earnings, in the face of higher interest rates?

A fascinating new study sheds some light on price drivers since 2000 🧵
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Greetings from Montreal, where getting a parking permit for a big SUV costs 80% more than for a modest-sized sedan.

Local leaders hope to nudge people away from bloated cars that endanger others, foul the air, and use extra curb space.

Makes sense to me!

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

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.

Is Scottish Government's transport spending harming the climate?

We found that almost £1bn of public funds in Scotland's City Deals are dedicated to high-carbon transport projects.

This investment harms climate, public health and equalities.

Read the report 👇

transform.scot/2024/04/24/tra…

Reintroducing rail connections to Levenmouth this summer will improve the bus provision too. Local buses will now integrate with the rail service to allow for better public transport across the area. The same will happen here when we #ConnectOurCoast !

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A symptom of decades of giving market house builders what they find most profitable - i.e. 'family homes' (detached or semi-detached houses on greenfield sites) rather than the homes we need. That would be urban homes for single people and specialist housing for the elderly.

'Scorched and flooded' - our future in a nutshell. Yet we argue about what 'the grey belt' means for sprawl and some supposed 'right' to fly on holiday and drive through cities.
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'Private developers don't provide affordable houses and the council hasn't been replenishing the stock.'

Lizzie Bundred Woodward from the CPRE The countryside charity explains why a targeted approach to housing is required as opposed to Green Belt deregulation.

Mike Parry | Storm Huntley | #StormHuntley