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EcologyMindedChippenham ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฆ—๐Ÿ•ธ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿฆ‰๐Ÿฆก๐Ÿšฒ

@EcologyMinded

Retired health care worker. Interestsโ€”climate change, sustainability & public services. โ€˜If I were a blackbird, Iโ€™d whistle, Iโ€™d singโ€™โ€”https://t.co/d52eGM6zRi

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This looks to me awfully similar to the @wiltscouncil video promotion for its โ€œroad route optionsโ€ that will destroy all the farms owned by the council round #Chippenham.

always happy to do a bit of desecration for cash, Duke is tasked with nuking Stonehenge to make way for a new ring road (big thanks to @letshugbro for this suggestion!)



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Repairing gaps is a conservation issue, constructing a chasm is not.

Stonehenge project launched to repair deep lintel cracks. Climate crisis and unsympathetic 1950s repairs have taken a toll on prehistoric structure theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sโ€ฆ



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Please join @biofuelwatch, @CCNFUK & special guest speakers from Estonia, Canada & the Southern USA this Thursday at 6pm BST to find out how we can protect #forests around the world from tree burning in UK power stations like Drax: eventbrite.co.uk/e/forests-climโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜ฎAll welcome!

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Please sign this ePetition. โ€œIt is now 2ยฝ years since โฆ@wiltscouncilโฉ acknowledged a climate emergency. No meaningful action has yet been taken to reduce countywide emissionsโ€ฆ.Itโ€™s time for Wiltshire Council to show leadership with a properโ€ฆplan.โ€ cms.wiltshire.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisโ€ฆ


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This imageโฌ‡๏ธ shows how @wiltscouncil has arranged its dystopian plans for โ€œgrowthโ€ in parts of the county it deems appropriate to sacrifice in order not to ruffle the feathers of residents in south & east Wiltshire.

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The long-term purpose of a road in #Chippenham between the A4 London Road, and the A350 Lackham roundabout south & southwest of the town (whatever @wiltscouncil tries to argue) is to assist development of a 65 mile north-south expressway from M4 junction 17 to Poole.

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By 2018, @wiltscouncil had realized that it couldnโ€™t achieve its long-term road-building ambitions by imposing conditions for planning approval on developers. All the developers had to do was to sit tight & push @wiltscouncil into finding ways of providing roads/bridges itself.

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The long-term purpose of a road in #Chippenham between the A4 London Road, and the A350 Lackham roundabout south & southwest of the town (whatever @wiltscouncil tries to argue) is to assist development of a 65 mile north-south expressway from M4 junction 17 to Poole.

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#Chippenham doesnโ€™t need 1000s of executive houses that @wiltscouncil only wants to boost council tax revenues. Chippenham needs affordable homes for local people who work in the town or the surrounding villages. Brownfield sites can be developed, & public transport improved.

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โฆ@wiltscouncilโฉ plans to destroy its own farms round #Chippenham by building roads & thousands of houses on them. โฆWith no consultation & no warning, @wiltscouncilโฉ has already given farmers to the south of Chippenham notice to quit.

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Faced with a situation where it wanted but couldnโ€™t afford, or persuade developers to pay to build roads connecting the market towns between M4 junction 17 & Poole, @wiltscouncil decided to call them infrastructure for housing. It got a ยฃ75m grant from national government.

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Next step has to be Local Plan votes. In the same way as Neighbourhood Plans (and these proposed Street Plans) require votes, so should every single Local Plan. That would concentrate the minds of the local authorities preparing them and, usually, forcing them upon residents.

Street Votes turns planning battles into a win/win. What other planning reform policy can win the praise of Mark Pennington, @RosieP4, @shreyagnanda, @JohnFingleton1, @Will_Tanner, @AndrewBoff, @K_Niemietz, @boys_nicholas, @KarlreMarks AND @tylercowen? yimbyalliance.org/streetplans/



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"the former UK government chief scientist Sir David King and the economist Prof Jeffrey Sachs โ€“ have written to ministers and the supreme court about a recent ruling... made in a case concerning the proposed expansion of Heathrow airport." theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ


โ€œโ€˜The commission believes that implementing these recommendations will give a further burst of momentum to the story of our countryโ€™s progress to a successful multi-ethnic & multicultural communityโ€”a beacon to the rest of Europe & the world.โ€™โ€ ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿง theguardian.com/world/2021/marโ€ฆ


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My @guardian story: Charity at the centre of the Jacob Rees-Mogg "political stunt" food poverty row delivers its one millionth pandemic breakfast box theguardian.com/education/2021โ€ฆ #ukpoverty @sfmtweet


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@BarristerSecret @davidallengreen @JoshuaRozenberg House of Lords Constitution Committee Report very critical of years of underfunding of justice system contributing to impact of pandemic on courts 1/ 2


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My letter in the FT today with @ianmulheirn critiquing Martin Wolf's piece on the UK housing crisis being primarily a supply-side problem.

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Today is a good day. 18 homeless and vulnerable people received their first vaccine at Doorway this afternoon, thanks to some excellent collaborative working, and the football group's starting again tonight. ๐Ÿ˜Š @PHWiltshire


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