@SaveBHCP

We are the Friends of Betteshanger Country Park working together to secure this precious site for nature. Please support our Crowd Justice Funder.

 Deal, Kent
crowdjustice.com/case/save-betteshanger-wildlife/
Joined June 2023
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The Friends of Betteshanger are moving to Bluesky. Thanks for all the interest and support. It’s been so appreciated.
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Town & Country Planning Association@theTCPA7 Jan 2025
🗣️ 'Public trust in planning has declined partly due to the consistent drive to marginalise the voice of the public. Communities are assumed to be incapable of understanding their own best interests – leading to infantile name calling around ‘Nimbys’.' tcpa.org.uk/planning-reform-…
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SmartGrowthUK@SmartGrowthUK21 Dec 2024
Does anyone know why the Prime Minister is so taken by the extreme views of a few commercial lobbyists and their followers and so resistant to the complex answers to house building needs in the real world? It's beginning to throw his entire government off course.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth19 Dec 2024
Starmer could talk about ending right to buy & funding local authorities to build massive amounts of new council housing. He could talk about profiteering developers banking land to control supply. No. Instead he tells us newts & bats are responsible for the housing crisis
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Latest Government ideas on planning and nature recovery. It looks as if developers will no longer have to carry out ecological assessments of individual sites. This will be replaced by strategic plans that they can pay into. gov.uk/government/news/plann…

Planning proposals get Britain building and turn the tide on nature’s decline

A new approach to development and the environment will boost the number of homes being built

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Here is the consultation on the Government’s working paper on Development and Nature’s Recovery. Please share. consult.communities.gov.uk/p…
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The Government had just produced a new working paper on Development and Nature Recovery. What they are proposing won’t work for sites like Betteshanger Park where a range of protected species are impacted. We will be responding to the expected consultation.
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Here is a link to the Governments working paper on development and nature recovery. You can respond by answering questions at the end and adding your own comments
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Chris Packham
@ChrisGPackham12 Dec 2024
Researchers from @sheffielduni visited nearly 6,000 houses across 42 developments , and this is what they found . Read the summary and/or full version here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/l…
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Wild Justice@WildJustice_org12 Dec 2024
On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE. In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments. Answer: NO. Read the report here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/l… 1/8
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Thank you Wild Justice for commissioning this important report. amp.theguardian.com/environm…

Housebuilders supply only half of promised nature-friendly features, survey finds

Developers in England deliver 53% of features such as trees and bird boxes demanded in planning permissions, study says

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Working paper from government on planning. gov.uk/government/publicatio…

Planning Reform Working Paper: Planning Committees

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Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧@RosieP49 Dec 2024
Tell the government what you think in answer to the questions posed. We @CommunityPlann1 will... (That said, I can't see an email address or survey form here) Planning Reform Working Paper: Planning Committees gov.uk/government/publicatio…

Planning Reform Working Paper: Planning Committees

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The latest from Angela Raynor. Bitterly disappointing that the Labour Party appears to be taking an anti wildlife stance when it comes to development. amp.theguardian.com/politics…

Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner

Housing secretary says wildlife should be protected but not at the expense of building the homes the country needs

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Wildlife and Countryside Link@WCL_News6 Dec 2024
The Prime Minister was wrong to blame nature protection & regulators for stopping development🏡 Read our joint letter to @Keir_Starmer calling for an urgent meeting to discuss how #nature & sustainable development can go hand-in-hand👇 wcl.org.uk/docs/2024/letter_… 📷Cassie Crocker
Image of wildflowers growing with houses in the background

ALT Image of wildflowers growing with houses in the background

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Where are the developers in Kent doing ‘brilliant things environmentally’ ?Our experience is that developers are only too ready to take advantage of a planning system that allows them to ride rough shod over protected species. kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/w…

‘We can’t be Nimbys - but new Kent homes need to be in the right place’

Television presenter Chris Packham has waded into the debate over mass housebuilding plans across Kent, saying: “We can’t be Nimbyist”.

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I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees

Defend the wildlife of Middlewick Ranges

Sitting on the southern edge of Colchester, the Middlewick Ranges is a former Ministry of Defence firing range that has become a much-loved wildlife space in an increasingly congested city. Locally...

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Thank you so much for all the support and encouragement. We will be working now to ensure all the planning conditions associated with the Betteshanger Park developments are met and that wildlife gets the best chance.
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It means the hotel and surf lagoon will now go ahead with impacts on open mosaic habitat, rare invertebrates, reptiles, water voles, turtle doves, lizard orchids and other rare plants, skylarks, badgers, bats. It’s heartbreaking.2/3
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Betteshanger update. Not the news we wanted to hear. Our lawyers advise that grounds for Judicial Review are weak. Our chances of success are low- with great reluctance we have decided to drop our legal challenge.1/3
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@NatureNerdTech #Wildcasting 🇨🇦@NorfolkBea12 Nov 2024
We are killing the natural world. theguardian.com/environment/…
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