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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

Could this Government get any further from solving the housing crisis? This takes the biscuit - selling affordable homes to private buyers:

inews.co.uk/news/housing...

Labour plans to sell off 'affordable homes' at higher price to private buyers

Developers claim thousands of affordable new-build homes are left empty because councils and housing associations are not buying them

inews.co.uk

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 3d

Guest blog - Blanket bogs and windfarms by @green--jenny.bsky.social

Blog: markavery.info/2025/10/30/g...

#peat #bog #turbines #renewable #climate #walshaw #hebden #haworth #floods #petition #PIB

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

If only in the UK too

Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 2d

Ghent in Belgium has a car-free city centre, a modern tram and bus network, and plentiful walking and cycling routes.
On #WorldCitiesDay, what's your favourite city for its transport network?

Photo showing Ghent's historic stone castle with battlements and towers under a clear blue sky, overlooking a modern street cafe with people walking by.

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing this

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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 2d

The Community Planning Alliance has launched a tracker to record every piece of countryside that is being rated #GreyBelt under the Government plan to destroy the effectiveness of green belt protection.
Please fill in as much of the form as you can and submit it.
tinyurl.com/yrczfc6h

Grey Belt Tracker

The Green Belt is at great risk under the 'grey belt' rules. We want to keep an eye on countryside and farmland that is being designated as 'grey belt'. Originally, when Sir Keir Starmer promised to p...

tinyurl.com

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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, we know.
Developers don't want to build them.
Not enough workers or materials.
Financiers don't want to invest.
Sprawl-type development is highly destructive.
But... ministers have sold their souls to Tufton Street's #YimbyLobby.
Time for a rethink.
tinyurl.com/4up9bc73

Government set to miss 1.5m target, housebuilders warn

Housebuilders tell the government's budget watchdog the new homes target for England is too optimistic.

tinyurl.com

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

Plus there is a petition doing the rounds, please sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework

We want an urgent change to the ‘grey belt’ definition in the NPPF. We think the grey belt glossary definition [which] could result in the loss of our countryside forever - vital for health and wellbe...

petition.parliament.uk

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

And please help us to identify grey belt sites by filling in our Grey Belt Tracker: forms.gle/LfUqvXy36XQR...

Grey Belt Tracker

The Green Belt is at great risk under the 'grey belt' rules. We want to keep an eye on countryside and farmland that is being designated as 'grey belt'. Originally, when Sir Keir Starmer promised to p...

forms.gle

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 1d

Quiz question: which of these two pictures is 'grey belt'?
Answer: they both could be.

See our 'Greying the Green Belt' report.
www.communityplanningalliance.org/latest-news....

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

@charliejgardner.bsky.social @batecology.bsky.social @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is such a great idea!

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill contains very alarming 'cash to trash' proposals. 2nd Reading 24th March.

Here's an email you can send to your MP

mailchi.mp/471f11cf1274...

#TeamBat #TeamNewt

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

Sorry for slow reply - I'm mostly on X

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

We'd love it if all your bat group get involved!

We've nominated 24th May our national day to raise awareness of the threat to nature and we're asking people all over the country to wear the t-shirts/badges and arrange activities

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Clare Lusher @batecology.bsky.social · Feb 12

One of my bat groups absolutely love this. We're tempted to all wear the tee shirts and protest outside Downing Street with bat calls on a loud hailer. 1000 big flags of this design carried about in protest would be epic. Let's make it happen 🦇🤓

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Mar 19

No, it's a generic campaign keeping an eye on the changes proposed by the government in the planning system. We're worried about the deregulation of the regulators and the proposals in the Planning & Infrasructure Bill

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Mar 19

The world we've built is not adapted to the world we've created

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN

Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

www.theguardian.com

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

We also now have Team Bat Team Newt t-shirts, caps and badges!
Buy here: www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla...
Petition pending.
National Team Bat Team Newt day of action in the spring!
#TeamBat #TeamNewt
Let's celebrate ALL of nature

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

Our government needs to wake up to the fact that they are not solving the housing crisis - they're just handing easier planning permissions to housebuilders.

Learn from Austria
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Why half of the population of Vienna live in social housing

Social housing schemes in Austria have created affordable, quality residential buildings and a sense of community. Here’s what we British could learn from them

www.thetimes.com

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Mrs. Ironside @mrsironside.bsky.social · Jan 31

Always and forever.

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Jan 30

Team Bat & Team Newt
vs
Team Destroy Nature

I know which team I'm on

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

Now available here (plus t-shirts and badges)
www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla...

Community Planning Alliance - redHotsource

www.redhotsource.co.uk

rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

Team Bat Team Newt t-shirts, caps, badges: www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla...

Petition pending (in gov't review system)

National Team Bat Team Newt day of action planned in the spring

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Dr Frankie Boyd @frankieboyd.bsky.social · Jan 31

🙌YES! A plan with wings
(and feet? do newts have feet?)

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

Another great letter from @johnrworrall.bsky.social

johnrworrall.bsky.social @johnrworrall.bsky.social · Feb 2

….and again. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... What say @2manyhouses.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social @danicapriest.bsky.social @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social @explorerdale.bsky.social @ldw1.bsky.social ?

How Labour can make homes more affordable | Letters

Letters: Puncturing this Ponzi scheme is the only way, writes John Worrall. Starmer doesn’t have the guts, says Stan Collins. And Rob Harris doesn’t want to see capital gains tax applied to his home

www.theguardian.com

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Feb 9

We also now have Team Bat Team Newt t-shirts, caps and badges!
Buy here: www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla...
Petition pending.
National Team Bat Team Newt day of action in the spring!
#TeamBat #TeamNewt
Let's celebrate ALL of nature

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