Kevin Dale 🍃💚🍃 SHIMBY

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Building on flood plains Building on Green Belt Building on countryside Ignoring empty homes, brownfield and empty commercials. news.sky.com/story/one-in-n…

We're having a national Day of Action on Saturday 18th April to show the government how much the electorate care about green spaces and nature. You can find out more on our Events page: communityplanningalliance.org/events-calenda…

Worried about loss of nature, parks & countryside in your local area? Join thousands of people & show councillors, MPs & the government how much we care. 💚🫂🦋🦇🍃 DAY of ACTION 18 April 2026 communityplanningalliance.org/events-calenda…

@richperr501 A rather large cow pat!

Once you know what you have planned, please fill in our quick and easy form and we can add you to the map of actions!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… (Thank you to those of you who have done so already)

What might YOU do on the Day of Action 🎬 Some ideas: Send photo of nature or green space at risk to 10 Downing Street. Send photo of brownfield or empty homes ignored. Arrange a nature walk or human chain. 👫 Plant a tree. 🌳 Put up nesting boxes or a bug hotel. 🪲 Get farmers involved & hold a tractor rally. 🚜

If you're worried about nature loss then please consider joining the national Day of Action for nature, parks and green spaces on 18th April. Let's make sure politicians know how much nature matters ahead of elections in May

Between forest dreams and fragile meadows. Nature’s tension in the Ox-Cam landscape. An opinion piece on forest promises, fragile habitats and why protection matters even more than planting. In this week’s @CambridgeIndy 🗞️🌱

Fifty new houses going up on a greenfield site near my tiny village, not a solar panel in sight. No infrastructure, almost no public transport. Pig ugly to boot. Why are we doing this?

Unfortunately this is the ‘Happy New Year’ message we need to put out. 2025 ended true to form on the same destructive ignorant note that has been played throughout the year. This is what it is folks. We choose not to play along. #nature #ecocide #bees #HappyNewYear

Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) said inconsistencies in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for solar developments on agricultural land risk undermining food & biodiversity. We need high grade land for FOOD.

@CommunityPlann1 @Bradley_JYoung Compare car-dependent sprawl filling in all the countryside between settlements in Leicestershire (which like most of East England, except Cambridge, has no GB), with adjacent Warks & Notts which do have GB. Mega sheds piling in on NE (Leics) side of the A5, none on Warks side.

Green Belt shows year on year decline. In the next few years we anticipate a huge decline as 'grey belt' de-designation kicks in. Or the developers will just get permissions and then sit on them 🪑

"Greying the Green Belt" communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/9/…

Article trashing the Green Belt. Paul Cheshire claiming it's "muddy fields in Enfield, a car wash in Tottenham and a disused golf course in Kent". Our report on grey belt shows just how wrong this is. @Bradley_JYoung #liveblog-body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.sky.com/story/money-li…

Greenbelt now classed as greybelt..a definition to allow developers to build more unaffordable housing and data centres on prime green fields ..communities upset and angry as powerless to do anything..hope and trust in @Keir_Starmer has gone.

It wasn't *that* four letter word. Although the same Labour Housing Minister who likes to dress up as Donald Trump. So if he wants to randomly attack me on Christmas Day, let's talk about Steve Reed.... insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/the…

Key figures in creation of Milton Keynes criticise England’s new towns plan No surprise is it ⁦@UKLabour⁩..the housing crisis isn’t about lack of homes, it’s about AFFORDABILITY and not enough social housing. theguardian.com/society/2025/d…

Today's reminder of why hoping policies allowing trashing of existing habitats & "net gain" or "at scale" replacements won't work. (And why making icons out of sycamores doesn't work either)

This is a slip road onto the M2 motorway in Kent. But it could be anywhere in the country. The motorway network is a total cesspit and ⁦@NationalHways⁩ - with its £5 BILLION annual budget - doesn’t care what you think. It’s a national scandal that needs exposing.