LBC’s Forest City Lovefest: How the Spiked Network Sold a Libertarian Dream as Community Housing On 5 December 2025, LBC’s Ali Miraj gave Austin Williams 45 minutes of unchallenged airtime to promote Forest City 1, a proposed million-person city on 45,000 acres between Newmarket and Haverhill in ...

One last thing, the free zones rollout came with secondary legislation, meaning zero Parliamentary debate, zero public consultation, and zero notification of the press, this is why next to no one in the UK has heard of free zones. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Public Warning: Charter-City and Free-Zone Developments Carry Documented Risks to Communities This is a public-interest warning, not an allegation against any named individual or organisation.

The Tories and Labour colluded on a nationwide rollout of free zones not long after Brexit.
12 Freeports - 8 in England, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Wales.
74 SEZs - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, 8 in Wales.
5 AI Growth Zones
Thread/Explainer
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URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda This is not a housing development. This is a pilot project for privatised governance.

Numerous right-wing think tanks and organisations back Forest City 1, and also Dame Patricia Hewitt (former Labour Secretary of State for Trade and Industry). The Guardian also loves Forest City 1. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Grey Belt Tracker - Google My Maps Fill in the form here if you know of Green Belt land at risk under the so-called 'grey belt' rules: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwA1uP1PqtIZfCpdmFetfOPqpztVGsK5MzDJycfGAEq8CnzQ/viewform...

The results of the Grey Belt Tracker so far www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

CPA Events Calendar - Community Planning Alliance On Saturday April 18th, just ahead of the local elections in May, groups and communities across the UK will be taking part in a UK-wide Day of Action for

The Community Planning Alliance is organising a national day of action for nature, parks and green spaces on 18th April.

Already we have 60 groups signed up.

Find out more here: communityplanningalliance.org/events-calen...

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

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...

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

If only in the UK too

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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...

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.
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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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

See our 'Greying the Green Belt' report.
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@charliejgardner.bsky.social @batecology.bsky.social @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social

This is such a great idea!

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

Sorry for slow reply - I'm mostly on X

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

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 🦇🤓

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Always and forever.

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

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