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rosie400.bsky.social
@rosie400.bsky.social
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Planning & environmental campaigner. Co-founder Community Planning Alliance www.communityplanningalliance.org. Founder Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons www.pylonseastanglia.co.uk
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 17d
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....
rosie400.bsky.social
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
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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markavery.bsky.social
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
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
If only in the UK too
bettertransport.bsky.social Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 18d
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.
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
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
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
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
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
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....
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
rosie400.bsky.social
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
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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batecology.bsky.social
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 🦇🤓
February 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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charliejgardner.bsky.social
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
March 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
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
February 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
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
February 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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mrsironside.bsky.social
Always and forever.
rosie400.bsky.social rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Jan 30
Team Bat & Team Newt
vs
Team Destroy Nature

I know which team I'm on
January 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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frankieboyd.bsky.social
🙌YES! A plan with wings
(and feet? do newts have feet?)
January 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
Another great letter from @johnrworrall.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
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
February 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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judywebb.bsky.social
I'm with Rosie. Team bat and Team Newt always, until my last breath. Who else is with us?
rosie400.bsky.social rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Jan 30
Team Bat & Team Newt
vs
Team Destroy Nature

I know which team I'm on
January 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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themindfulnb.bsky.social
There are so many better ways to create homes without taking the homes of our wildlife. Team Bat and Team Newt have the answers, let's get our government to join the team too!
rosie400.bsky.social rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · Jan 30
Team Bat & Team Newt
vs
Team Destroy Nature

I know which team I'm on
January 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
BLOG This is a shout-out to national environmental bodies to form a united front to campaign for a positive future, in the face of the blizzard of unsustainable government policies.
smartgrowthuk.org/uncategorize...
Dangerous times need a united front – Smart Growth UK
smartgrowthuk.org
January 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
rosie400.bsky.social
Team Bat & Team Newt
vs
Team Destroy Nature

I know which team I'm on
January 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
rosie400.bsky.social
Except it can't write laws by itself.

I wish everyone would actually read the Bill

and hurrah for a presumption in favour of community solar! That's good growth that everyone should support
antbreach.bsky.social Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · Jan 23
For example, it mandates a presumption in favour of all community energy projects of <100MW and a presumption against all energy projects >100MW;

That "all activities in the UK" must comply with a 'nature hierarchy'

It also proposes a Citizen Assembly that can just write new laws by itself
January 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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neweconomics.bsky.social
Expanding airports are not a silver bullet for economic growth - and the damage it would incur is massive.

@chaitanyakumar in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Screengrab from Guardian. Text reads: Chaitanya Kumar, the head of environment policy at the New Economics Foundation thinktank, questioned the chancellor’s apparent faith in airport expansion as a means of generating growth, however. “Expanding our airports will not produce the economic growth that Rachel Reeves so desperately wants. The government’s plan suggests they haven’t done their homework or they would know that more airport capacity will neither bring us benefits from more business travel or money from international tourists,” he said.
January 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
But what sort of "growth"? A malignant one?
news.sky.com/story/politi...
Politics latest: Growth 'a priority' over net zero, minister suggests
Sir Keir Starmer is vowing to take on "the NIMBYs" by reducing legal challenges to infrastructure building - with a new approach stopping "newts and bats" from blocking construction.
news.sky.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
The problem is not that environmentalists are legally challenging major infrastructure projects, it's that the projects being promoted need challenging environmentally.
Airport expansion is a good example.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth
Keir Starmer hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will send a message to business to build more
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
Quite so.
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Imagining the brutal takedown Rachel Reeves in Opposition would have delivered had a Tory Minister planned what Rachel Reeves in Government plans.
January 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM