Geographer, choir member, supporter of charities such as NSPCC and CPRE (the Countryside Charity), dog owner and follower of local issues.
Bedfordshire
Joined December 2021
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Hey @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast and you are putting a railway through Clapham Bedford ? Todays flooded area #flooding
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Anyone else think @Feargal_Sharkey should be awarded a knighthood for his relentless campaigning to expose the water pollution scandal?
Like & share if you agree
(A sainthood may be more appropriate… you need the patience of one to put up with this 💩)
express.co.uk/news/nature/18… – at South West, England
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
So out of touch. No property in the Rhondda would take a couple over the threshold. This is a tax cut for a tiny proportion of the richest people in the country. Yet more irresponsible Rish!nomics.
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Wow, just wow; Have you seen this @cllrbridget @LNethsingha @pippaheylings.? Do take a good look because @SCLibDems voted to put the C2C busway through the orchard and it may soon be entombed in concrete and tarmac. And no @CambsLabour it’s not a monoculture than can be offset
Help us send a message to @CambsCC. Join @CambridgePPF in the fight to #SaveCotonOrchard change.org/p/save-the-green-… 🌳🍎🚌❌
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
A very positive approach to town development, thank you @johnharris1969
The problem:
In countless British suburbs and towns, cookie-cutter developments, poor building standards, not meeting local needs for either genuinely affordable flats and houses or homes for social rent
Latest from me - on why towns need more than housing, and local economies made up of more than shops & estate agents. Something visionary is going on in #Frome, as often happens theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Why this unnecessary road will be a catalyst for urbanisation far beyond the wildest dreams of those who are determined to ruin our precious countryside.
This road needs to be stopped. Please lobby @NorfolkCC and your local MP
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Once again a massive round of applause to @joe_crowley and everyone at @BBCPanorama for exposing the lies, deceit and corruption of the water industry and the utter inability and incompetence of the regulatory system to deal with it.
It's what @BBCPanorama was built for. 👏👏👏
Water firm wrongly downgraded pollution events, documents suggest
BBC Panorama's The Water Pollution Cover-Up is on @BBCiPlayer now and @BBCOne at 8pm
bbc.in/46Glbww
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
“It’s a slippery slope & there isn’t much slope left” in Bristol it’s Yew Tree Farm. In Cambridge it’s Paradise Nature Reserve & Coton Orchard. If councils don’t protect these spaces, don’t heed experts @WildlifeTrusts, what hope is there for stoping the free fall❓#DefendNature
If we cannot protect this SNCI then what is stopping development on others across the city?
It is a slippery slope and with wildlife in rapid freefall, there isn’t much slope left.
(9/9)
#YewTreeFarm #Bristol
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
After today's High Court ruling that govt and @EnvAgency are acting illegally is this a good time to remind you the SoS for @DefraGovUK is married to an executive at @AnglianWater a WC guilty of 72 environmental permit breaches over the last 10 years?
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
We look forward to working with you @Lee4NED
Please take a look at our website, over 700 groups across the country, all concerned about their local environment, and providing housing that is affordable for local people
communityplanningalliance.or…
Home ownership is the cornerstone of Conservatism - and for building the property-owning democracy that we all want to see.
Delighted to be supporting @michaelgove on our ambitious long-term plan for housing - and to build more homes in the right places for everyone
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Did I mention the wife of new SoS for Environment is head of major infrastructure at @AnglianWater a company currently entangled in the "Largest ever criminal investigation into potential widespread breaches of environmental permit conditions" by the EA?
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
"On Census Day, 21 March 2021, there were 1.5 million unoccupied dwellings in England and 120,450 in Wales. This is 6.1% of all dwellings in England and 8.2% in Wales."
When is a second home really a vacant home? And how many of England's 1.5million #emptyhomes are 'truly vacant' @ONS say 1,351,869 exposing the 2nd home myth in @luhc data which classes 257,000 furnished empties as 'second homes'
See how they checked here:
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Presumably you then support an emergency campaign of nature restoration to restore uplands, wetlands, marshes & river catchments to ensure that they absorb, retain & store water to stop the flood/drought cycle caused by poor land management & exacerbated by climate change?
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
The utterly dire state of transport policy in England - spending £200m+ on a road to increase accidents, congestion & pollution over a wide area and to open a large area of greenfield land up to urban sprawl.
A monster from an earlier age.
It’s official, @transportgovuk have committed to providing £200m of funding towards our Norwich Western Link project, a new dual carriageway between the A47 and Broadland Northway to the west of Norwich.
Great news for people and businesses in the area, and Norfolk as a whole.
ALT Norwich Western Link from Broadland Northway roundabout.
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Horrendous
You're turning Blake's 'Green and Pleasant Land' into a mass of grey and black, a biological desert.
You prefer the sound of cars to birdsong? Enjoy the heat emanating from black surfaces? More important to drive through forests that wander through their peace?
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
This great report from @crisis_uk underlines the #Retrofit opportunity in England's #emptyhomes and other empty buildings - we were happy to collaborate on the report and that's just one reason we're also happy to be at @ArchitectsJrnal #AJRetrofitlive today
Today in England a million homes are without residents - let's do what it says on the tin and 'End homelessness with homes' - starting with those we already have... a modest proposal from @crisis_uk which we were happy to collaborate on #emptyhomes
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
Govt has just published it much praised, much lauded plans to protect chalk streams and it amounts to a whole heap of nothing, absolutely nothing.
When will river charities and eNGOs get their head around the idea, you've been played, mislead, lied to, abused.
Now do something!
Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweeted
REALLY??? They listen to the King’s Hedges by-election defeat and to LibDems withdrawing their STZ support (explicitly attacking LD for this) so LAB tried to avoid political suicide. Until now we received only disdain and arrogance. How outrageous to call this “listening”