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SmartGrowthUK
@SmartGrowthUK
An informal coalition of organisations and individuals interested in promoting the Smart Growth approach in the UK.
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Jan 10, 2022
    Why is the BBC so obsessed with a row over a tennis player's visa in Australia? It relegates important stuff about #ClimateChange down-bulletin and doesn't mention threats to peace, biodiversity, #FoodSecurity, western democracy etc..
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    BBC Breaking News
    BBC News (UK)
    @BBCBreaking
    Jan 10, 2022
    Novak Djokovic returns to tennis court after winning legal battle in Australia over visa bbc.in/3qaTh9N
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    May 2, 2024
    Replying to @WateryLn and @georgebernhard
    So a 31% drop in dangerous driving "proves your point"? Maybe you should take time to think about it?
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    May 6, 2020
    Meanwhile the Felixstowe-Midlands rail link, a key part of the rail freight network, remains unelectrified, with congested junctions, inadequate signalling and part of it is even single-track. So many freight trains have to use the congested GE, N London & WCML routes.
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    A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet
    @A428Cat
    May 5, 2020
    We’re delighted to announce that the #A14C2H is open for traffic today, 8 months early! We’ll need some closures to do finishing works, to be advertised in advance. Work in Huntingdon continues until 2022. Please remember: only travel during lockdown for essential journeys.
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Feb 4, 2024
    Meanwhile, in Britain, politicians are arguing over how much of big city green belts they can build low-density sprawl on.
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    Mike Hudema
    @MikeHudema
    Feb 4, 2024
    Madrid is building 74km forest belt of half a million trees 🌳 around the city to fight extreme heat, air pollution & climate change.IPCC We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #IPCC #Cop28
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Aug 26, 2023
    Pretty impossible to protect the rural natural environment if you plan to dump 24 new towns on it, @RachelReevesMP.
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    Rachel Reeves
    @RachelReevesMP
    Aug 25, 2023
    As Chancellor, I will protect our rural economy by protecting our natural environment.
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    May 23, 2023
    Shame to see a once-great newspaper reduced to doing public relations for the house building industry.
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Aug 13, 2022
    How many places in this country could post a similar picture? Land allocated for low-density housing, miles from a railway station, let alone a comprehensive rail network, and needing 100% new education & healthcare infrastructure it's unlikely to get even once built over.
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    Moi🍃💚🍃🦎🦇🌳
    @Moi02114223Moi
    Aug 12, 2022
    Good agricultural land and beautiful veteran oaks allocated for housing in a Local Plan of course.
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Jun 25, 2023
    If 700,000-1,000,000 consented housing plots haven't been built, it shows just how useless the #NPPF demands on deliverability are. Also how the big commercial incentive of the current system is winning permission and upping the value of the land, not building homes.
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    The i Paper
    @theipaper
    Jun 23, 2023
    Housing secretary Michael Gove has slammed developers for sitting on land rather than building new homes after an investigation by @theipaper found they are hoarding more than a million building plots 🔴 @Victoria_Spratt and @DavidParsley50 report trib.al/St1csXy
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Jan 10, 2020
    Anyone who still believes house building numbers in English local plans aren't dictated by Whitehall and that local authorities still have freedom to decide how many homes they allow to be built should read Mr Jenrick's letter.
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    CPRE Oxfordshire
    @CPREOxfordshire
    Jan 9, 2020
    Secretary of State threatens to pass South Oxfordshire Local Plan to County Council cpreoxon.org.uk/news/item/2793…
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Apr 21, 2020
    Interesting to hear from HS2 supporters why vegetation clearance needs to be done during nesting season and why its security people are unaware of social distancing requirements? Is construction imminent? If not, why this now, other than media attention being directed elsewhere?
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    William Watson
    @bearwitness2019
    Apr 21, 2020
    National Eviction Team at Crackley Wood forcefully restrain an ancient woodlands protector who was trying to record the excessive violence #StopHS2 #HS2rebellion #ExtinctionRebellion @Channel4News @BBCNews @itvnews @BorisJohnson
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Apr 3, 2021
    Anyone still wedded to carbon-intensive lifestyles should read this. Those planning new roads, airports and sprawl should now start planning for sea level rises above 3 metres which would drown parts of several UK cities and large areas of the country. This is not a joke.
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    Northumbria Uni
    @NorthumbriaUni
    Apr 1, 2021
    Our @NUGeog researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica could cross tipping points, leading to a rapid and irreversible retreat which would have significant consequences for global sea level. Read more at northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-…
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Jan 15, 2023
    Building on former rail alignments likely to be needed for sustainable transport is folly. Local plans should safeguard them, not zone them for construction.
    Major plan for 100 new homes on abandoned railway cutting could be controversial
    From theboltonnews.co.uk
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Sep 28, 2023
    So let's remember this next time someone (usually a commercial lobbyist) complains that anyone is a #nimby for opposing people who want to make big profits from trashing their local environment.
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    Cardiff University
    @cardiffuni
    Sep 26, 2023
    The three largest housebuilders used their market power to deliver abnormally large profits and gain an advantage over competitors without dramatically increasing their levels of housing supply, a report shows. buff.ly/3rrc97Q
    Close up shot of hand next to a brick wall
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    SmartGrowthUK
    @SmartGrowthUK
    Mar 4, 2020
    Confirmation that planning in England is now effectively controlled by Whitehall. What a shame Whitehall is so besotted with #DumbGrowth
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    South Oxfordshire council ordered to progress Local Plan
    From bbc.co.uk