Half year results for National Grid - it's all about the shareholder at the expense of the Great British countryside. Wildlife, communities, heritage, businesses all being sacrificed for profit and @Ofgem MIA: nationalgrid.com/document/56533…

Defra UK It's silly. There is still no land use framework. We need a national strategy for land use before you start plonking woodlands around just because it sounds good. And let's focus on protecting the woodland we have, first. Start by dropping Part III of the Planning &

There are better alternatives. Let's have a GREAT grid upgrade, not one that just lines the pockets of National Grid's shareholders.

So Steve Reed has just tabled a motion to reject the lords amendments to the planning bill which would protect endangered species and habitats from extinction. This is vile Steve. Did you forget you promised to protect nature? We didn’t! It’s not too late to change this Steve

This is rampant and often goes unpunished. The Hoades Wood case was much bigger, the Billericay scandal bigger still. However the location of the Oxfordshire case, by the River Cherwell means action is especially desperately needed.

Pylons day of action tomorrow across Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk, with MP's James Cartlidge MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 and Bernard Jenkin MP in attendance

Well done!

Ministers are considering gutting the Biodiversity Net Gain rules, which were created to restore England’s habitats for wildlife. At the same time, protections for National Parks might also be watered down. thetimes.com/article/453863…

Toby Young We have a better plan homesforeveryone.org

Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 It indeed, it is a childish mantra and as we know we don't need the extra houses anyway!

So Baroness Anne McIntosh Anne McIntosh who wrote the book on "Food security" says The Labour Party Steve Reed will regret their build, baby, build mantra. We agree 👍 We certainly regret most of their policies for planning and the countryside.

Same as housing. - They lied that 'grey belt' was disused petrol stations, when it's actually farmland/countryside. - They lie that it's 'brownfield first', when everyone knows it's countryside first. And pylons - They lie that pylons are the cheapest and the least harmful way to

But not a Britain for nature. Nor for people who live in the countryside. Not for farmers. Not for those who need social housing.

Basildon Local Plan consultation – 28k houses, 20k houses on Green Belt. Vast areas (pink) to be removed from GB. Far more than needed for hyper-supply demanded by the Govt Algorithm. #Billericay to merge with Basildon, which will in turn merge with #Wickford #Starmergeddon

Actually it will allow developers to build the houses they want to build. Without affordable. At the expense of nature. And on Green Belt and best farmland. This isn’t about the country. It’s about developers getting their way.

“It seems, however, that Miliband will not be content until every last remaining inch of countryside is industrialised, and every last fox, badger and hare hounded from its home.”

Destroying our countryside and nature in the name of build baby build and not solving the real housing crisis

Funny how, after a year of Labour making planning permissions easier, planning permissions have plummeted, showing what the rest of us knew… it’s the market which dictates what gets built