#Biodiversity: why new rules to ensure nature benefits from building projects could fail & risk creating a trade in “shadow” biodiversity gains that exist on paper but don’t improve nature in reality. #shitplanning theconversation.com/biodiversity-w… via The Conversation

Planning to fail: CPRE finds government failing to map route to net zero cpre.org.uk/news/planning-…

One of the underlying issues is the definition of "affordable". Currently based on local rents, which can be skewed in many rural areas by 2nd homes, Airbnb etc. Far better to use local incomes as the benchmark. Therefore many new developments not providing what is needed.

Breaking: Plans approved for new large scale solar farm near Minety.

A council parking charge is just the compensation you pay to everyone else for using communal space for your private car.

Stockport £500 million bypass rejected as 'old world solution' to traffic issues bbc.com/news/uk-englan… Well done Stockport, Wales and Herefordshire..Shropshire is still stuck in "old world" thinking Mark Barrow Transport Action Network Cllr Lezley Picton 🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🏏💙💛♐️ @ShropClimate

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I missed the R4 programme but if #KwasiKwarteng says "We can’t impose infrastructure on people if they don’t want it" in relation to wind power (plenty of it 🌬️ today), what about all the other infrastructure projects? A few have said already that this also relates to #HS2

Elections & elected leaders decide what happens. Consultations give feedback to help shape those decisions. This is what democracy looks like.

Building roads increases traffic in the longer term, making congestion worse, not better. Great to hear councillors have rejected plans for a major bypass linking the M60 and A6 on environmental grounds and are focusing on improving sustainable transport. newcivilengineer.com/latest/plans-f…

Housing ‘need’ should be based on current pop trends not outdated ONS numbers from 2014. In our area deaths outstrip births, any pop increase is from internal migration. 17140 houses are not for local need! Sir Roger Gale Mike Garner

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On a similar vein Water UK has also been playing the let's massage the data game. Leakage data used to be presented as a litres per day target, easy for the consumer to understand. They've now changed that to a percentage figure averaged over 3 years. How pathetic.

Despite what can seem like an uphill struggle at times, stopping new local roads from is possible! Please get in touch if you need help or advice on how to tackle a damaging new road in your area. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/campa… #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSafeStreets

Do you have something that you’d like to know the value of? Marc Allum & Lisa Lloyd will be joining us at the Alfred Hall, Chippenham, from 10:00, Friday 28 October to do valuations for members of the public—up to four items for a £5 donation to our campaign fund.

Or would you just like a lovely cup of coffee & a piece of cake? If you’d like to look for Christmas presents & stocking fillers, we’ll also have stalls offering delightful items for sale.