Totnes fights back! 4 years ago someone acted against our community, by using family connections to secretly sell a site destined to be unique community project… 🧵

Thank you so much everyone who came to the Fourth #AnniversaryofNothing organised by the wonderful atmosfortotnes. What a beautiful and moving event. ❤️❤️❤️

The Public Inquiry ended yesterday. Quite a journey. Now it's all over to the Inspector. Our deepest thanks to her for her professionalism, to our barrister Celina Colquhoun, everyone at the atmosfortotnes, South Hams District Council and our financial supporters. ❤️❤️ Now we wait. #Totnes

We are #Totnes. Another World Is Possible.

Many of you are asking, after the Public Inquiry which concluded February 1st, "what's happening with Atmos?". Good question. We are awaiting the Inspector's decision. No date was given, but we imagine around the start of April? As soon as we hear we will share the news here ❤️

Ecologically illiterate piece in the Times today, virtually a puff piece for developers listing all their gripes “Nobody bothered much about bats and newts in the past” Moans about having to survey “interesting weeds” before building Give me strength thetimes.co.uk/article/we-nee…

Feels painfully familiar.

Thank you Totnes. ❤️ atmosfortotnes

A community tends to its broken hearts, with love, rage and sadness. ❤️ atmosfortotnes

Article from the local press reflecting on the recent Inquiry result: "We stand by the evidence we gave at the Inquiry and will continue to work on getting the site back so the town can get the housing and jobs it desperately needs": kingsbridge-today.co.uk/news/planning/…

Dear Angela Rayner. An idea for you #1: If you want to get houses built, and avoid landbanking, how about saying that developers now need to start paying Council Tax on a house from the moment planning is granted? It would really help. Thank you Toby Lloyd Guy Shrubsole

Dear Angela Rayner An idea for you #2: Revise Community Right to Build powers so that once a community has run a community consultation, masterplanned a site, and won a local referendum on its plans, it acquires the power to CPO that site. Transformative Toby Lloyd Guy Shrubsole

Community-led development has so much ambition and potential, but so many challenges to delivery. A new English Community Right to Buy could be a fundamental support, but as always the devil will be in the details.

What the UK needs right now is the Community Power Act proposed by We're Right Here: the campaign for community power. Includes an actual, meaningful, Right to Buy, that would make projects like ours possible and challenge the power of landbankers like Fastglobe who trample on local peoples: right-here.org