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

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

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

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....

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

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 🦇🤓

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

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.

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

Another great letter from @johnrworrall.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

I'm with Rosie. Team bat and Team Newt always, until my last breath. Who else is with us?

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!

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...

Team Bat & Team Newt vs Team Destroy Nature I know which team I'm on

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

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...

But what sort of "growth"? A malignant one? news.sky.com/story/politi...

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...

Quite so.

Imagining the brutal takedown Rachel Reeves in Opposition would have delivered had a Tory Minister planned what Rachel Reeves in Government plans.

Keir Starmer, your government promised bold action on climate and nature - but this isn’t it. ❌ It’s a move that risks tearing up our chances for a future where nature, people, and the economy thrive.

Starmer is scared of taking real climate and nature action. That's why he is bullying his MPs It's why he bullied me in Daily Mail today too (see below) Most of the public want action to protect climate and nature, and he wasn't elected to do this He has got this badly wrong

My understanding is that it’s almost unheard of for governments to mount a 3-line whip against a private members bill. Apart from once under the dreadful Johnson, it hasn’t been done since Thatcher.

If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇

Caption competition.

Over 11,000 people have sent our Community Planning Alliance homesforeveryone.org report to their MP. Have you? Very easy to do via the link here

Terrible idea to tell regulators to regulate for growth not risk. I hope they'll push back strongly. Businesses are perfectly able to agitate for growth. Regulators need to ensure that this does not impact the environment, consumers, communities. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

News that more young adults are living with parents means we should crack on with delivering Homes for Everyone: homesforeveryone.org What we don't need is proposals for ever more unaffordable executive boxes on greenfield

The IPBES Nexus assessment is out. Guess what? It finds that water & food security, Nature, human health & climate change are all deeply connected with one another. We need a systems view to sort it all out (not work in the silos that presently perpetuate suboptimal outcomes). www.ipbes.net/nexus

Insect decline is one of the most profoundly alarming symptoms of the declining health of Nature. It is most welcome that this step is to be taken www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big debate for a long while about the causes of megafauna extinctions. This paper confirms the central role of humans. Of 57 mammal species over 1000kg that roamed the Earth during the late Pleistocene, 11 remain now (Elephants/Rhino etc). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hundreds of Bramblings killed by a fireworks display on New Years Eve. www.bta.bg/en/news/bulg... #ornithology #birding

Bus services cut disproportionately in deprived areas of England, study finds

#Migratory fish including #eel need coordinated efforts to secure their movement along rivers - either #FishPassages or #DamRemoval - And major improvements in #WaterQuality in #freshwater #ecosystems Oh, and no longer millions of #elvers as a ‘delicacy’! #GenerationRestoration

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Not like this. More like this... homesforeveryone.org

Natural England boss to call for new approach to nature as economic asset Tony Juniper will warn the economy cannot grow if nature does not at the launch of the non-governmental body’s State Of Natural Capital report.

How about an alliance of YAY-sayers, not naysayers, Keir Starmer? See www.commmunityplanningalliance.org

Could it just be @Keir_Starmer that instead of, "Where there are blockers putting the brakes on, it’s a sign you are delivering real change" maybe you are doing something wrong and should listen? The environment, nature & climate do matter.

'Alliance of naysayers' @Keir_Starmer? More like an alliance of YAYsayers. Yes to affordable & sustainable housing, re-use of empty homes, repurposing of commercial properties. Yes to solar on rooftops & car parks. Yes to upgrading existing grid; offshore grid & HVDC)

I'm now on BlueSky (rosie400.bsky.social) as well as Twitter (@RosieP4) but will remain most active on Twitter, I mean X, for the foreseeable