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“Who are we, collectively? “We are brilliant, rich thinkers with passion and power. We are not nimbies and blockers. Nature is the future. “What could we do together? How can we marry the fierce rage of grassroots activists with big policy thinking from the nature charities? THEN we would be a mass movement demanding and […]

Wild Summi conference challenges Government to reverse decline of wildlifeWild Summit

Speaking in Bristol at today’s Wild Summit, Mary Creagh said: “Without healthy nature our communities and our economies cannot thrive. Emergency authorisations for pesticides must now fully take into account the risks pesticides pose to pollinators including bees. Every action we take brings us closer to a country where nature thrives in harmony with communities.” […]

Review of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP)

The Government has today (30 July) announced a rapid review of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) to be completed by the end of the year to deliver our legally binding targets to save nature.  (Source Government Press Release) The Government will develop a new, statutory plan to protect and restore our natural environment with delivery […]

Clean energy subsidy auction up by £500 million

Wind of change (Copied from Tortoise Media) The Labour government boosted the nation’s annual clean energy subsidy auction by £500 million yesterday, making record amounts of money available to developers and bringing the total on offer to £1.5 billion. This year’s extra cash is a bid to avert 2023’s catastrophic offshore wind contracts auction, which […]

OPEN LETTER to all South and Vale District Councillors re Proposed Developments in Flood Plains and Inadequate Sewage Capacity.

Everything has changed. Our safety is at risk. 5,000 dwellings foisted onto South Oxfordshire’s Green Belt by Oxford City and forced through by Government in 2020, cannot be built. Not unless we want to revert to Victorian conditions with all the public health implications of a sewage-filled river. The Environment Agency (EA) objects to building […]

Environment Agency slams plans for development North of Bayswater Brook

The Environment Agency objects in principle to the proposed development as it falls within a flood risk vulnerability category that is inappropriate to the Flood Zone(s) in which the application site is located. They do not have enough information to be satisfied that the proposed development can meet requirements for the net improvement of ecology […]

High Court overturns inspectors’ decision to water down net zero policy in council’s 2,200-home plan

Ricardo Gama, solicitor at Leigh Day which acted on behalf of the claimant, said: “The judge has found that the government’s planning inspectors were wrong to hold that national planning policy prevented local authorities from setting climate-compatible energy efficiency requirements for new buildings. The case is a frustrating example of a local authority trying to […]

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