. Rachel Millward - this meshes with WDC’s aspirations 😊

. British Airways are you taking ££ before booking confirmed 😳? No means of communicating 😳?

. Rachel Millward for any interested folk in the ward

Rescue Hoad’s Wood: Clean-up Illegally Dumped Landfill Waste Now! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/nWjHBkRt via Change.org UK

Open-access paper on ecosystem services multi-functionality & trade-offs in Green Belts. To paraphrase Catriona Riddell 😁, great to have evidence around matters CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England LondonGreenBeltCouncil have long discussed, & will help to see a way forward.

#Indonesia’s largest deforesting company has continued to clear #peatland despite an order by the government for the firm to stop clearing #rainforests - The company is #pulpwood producer PT Mayawana Persada. news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indone…

If you think destroying SACs for, quite literally, no reason, is unacceptable - PLEASE retweet and email complaints! You can help. RIP West Kirby foreshore and its wildlife.

Of course we need to balance multiple land uses, but I’m always baffled by the school of economic thought that the countryside exists primarily as something to build things on. As if food, nature & natural capital are just abstract concepts.

This little one is having a solo adventure on the Greater Anglia Ipswich-Peterborough line but wants to go home! Please RT to help find his best friend, he'll be given a room for the night at Ipswich Station for now!

Dear Rachel Reeves - see how forcing mandatory targets on councils is not any kind of solution to any problem? Mortgage costs hit demand = Barratt builds fewer houses. independent.co.uk/business/barra…

Our letter to The Labour Party Ministers with our concerns for their #PlansforPlanning We seek: • greater participation for communities in planning • greater environmental protections • the right developments & infrastructure in the right places Angela Rayner Matthew Pennycook MP

In the News: A new cafe has opened at the Ashdown Forest Visitor Centre. (Ashdown Radio) ashdownradio.com/news/the-guide…

The Labour Party UK Prime Minister Angela Rayner Once you have dealt with the VIABILITY LOOPHOLE .. JUST THREE THINGS that new planning policy needs to address. To accelerate AFFORDABLE housing delivery *AND* minimise the HARM to food supply, nature & the environment.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"At the Skylarks estate [the developer] has set aside a nesting site for their namesake ... This is completely unsuitable for skylarks, says [the LPA ecologist] 🙄 Warfield Env Group It's great to see the LPA Ecologist pick the developers up on this. How often does this happen?

They've corrected it now, but I was delighted to see that Defra UK originally listed among new Minister Mary Creagh CBE MP's responsibilities "National Landscapes, including National Parks", correctly interpreting the central proposal of the Glover #LandscapesReview.

Finance and NOT supply is the root cause of high house prices … Rachel Reeves & Angela Rayner have the wrong diagnosis and wrong cure. Soaring UK house prices are not due to lack of supply, Bank of England finds independent.co.uk/news/business/…

Steve Howell writing in the Big Issue #Landbanking CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 SmartGrowthUK Just Space Supporting the Local

These #Hertfordshire sites should NOT be renamed the ‘grey belt’ ! CPRE Herefordshire #Greenbelt #Greybelt cpreherts.org.uk/news/these-her…

Sadly has hardly made the news in the UK so far. Hopefully will ramp up in coming days 🙏