If Rishi Sunak is keen for more UK-grown food...

he shld investigate why aggressive developers can easily persuade landowners to sell well-drained, grade 1 arable fields for massive housing estates
and threaten planners with eyewatering legal challenges
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The FT noticing the emergence of a broad political coalition of voters whose key concern is protection & restoration of nature & the earth. This coalition may be electorally stronger than the pro-human development supporters who currently make more noise

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UK food security and climate adaptation depends on restoring nature: then why are wildlife charities excluded from the #FarmToForkSummit ?
Craig Bennett asks wildlifetrusts.org/blog/uk-food-s…

Liberal Democrats Tim Farron This amendment needs to ensure ONGOING responsibility for malfunctions of the installation of modular waste treatment works/ SuDs/ wetlands that many big developers are installing in individual housing estates to circumvent lack of infrastructure

Often by out-of-area utilities

🗣️ A leading food scientist at Queen’s University in Belfast has criticised the government’s record on food security.

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Prof Chris Elliott OBE | Queen's University Belfast 🎓

🚜 Ahead of the Government’s #FarmToFork summit in Downing Street tomorrow, we’ve set out our key priorities for the agricultural and food supply sector, which we want the Government to address in 2024.

➡️ Read our statement here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/e…

More mass fly tipping issues in Kent. Surely this is organised by the same people? Our poor environment.Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Went to Minster Marshes this afternoon. First bird I saw after arriving at a favoured spot was a Cattle Egret flying over (more of which later). Also 2 Hobbies, Red Kite, many Yellow Wags (one Channel-type), Cuckoo, usual Warblers, Common Sand, lots of Buzzards.

Had my camera in the right place for once! Swallow. East Kent Little Stour Orchard 🍃💚🍃 David Hunt

It’s incredible: 238 individual trees, 50 groups of trees, 3 woodlands, 79 hedgerows & all buildings that the 4 developers have surveyed in Titchmarsh they can categorically say that NOT a single 🦇 roost in any of them - EVER. 10+ species, 1000s passes NO roosts! The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants

Bullfinches enjoying Dandelion for breakfast on my unkept lawn. Nice to see the benefits of leaving the Dandelions to bloom & seed. Dandelion Appreciation Society

‘Again, Minster Marshes is a prime example of blindly ignoring the plight of this area with fine words in reports which are clearly not enacted in reality to protect the plants, animals, birds and beauty of this area, which is valued by the local human populace too.’

1.Yesterday I was given a full tour of the area which will be impacted by National Grid at Minster Marshes Thanet. An enormous converter station is planned in the field central to the photo.
This is one of the last untouched areas of Thanet.Full of wildlife, a magical place.