Petition: Pause plans for Bedford - Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7015…
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃
@ea_calvert
Geographer, choir member, supporter of charities such as NSPCC and CPRE (the Countryside Charity), dog owner and follower of local issues.
Bedfordshire Katılım Aralık 2021
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I'm supporting @whichuk's #StampOutScams campaign. It's time for banks to get serious about scams and protect innocent victims who are losing millions every year. campaigns.which.co.uk/scams/
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweetledi
Hey @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast and you are putting a railway through Clapham Bedford ? Todays flooded area #flooding
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Ask a teacher what they are paid per hour. It was always depressing to work out what it was when you did t just include time in school. Coaching etc earned more but I would ask some doctors how they work out their pay.
Dr Dolittle@DocDoLi
@AbbieTBee What is this obsession with ‘doctors should just be happy with helping people’? Lawyers help people and I’m pretty sure they’re not paid £15 an hour.
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Beth didn’t want to listen or answer questions in a helpful way
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Not underwater trains - 🚆🛫 I thought they were flying trains over a huge raised structure which will obviously need piles for the arches to go down miles.
BFARe @BFARe.org.uk@BFARE2
Clapham Bedford! @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast have you ordered those underwater trains yet ?
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweetledi
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 💩)
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And looking at London etc how many will be second homes or investments?! @luhc @michaelgove
Andy Wilson@AndyWilson459
@CommunityPlann1 A lack of financial viability I guess. It’s happening everywhere on brownfield sites. These developments are exactly where affordable homes are most needed!
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweetledi
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.
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If only it was the last piece - #beds #cambs could heave a sigh of relief that EWR have given up on the other half☹️🏘️🚆 Amazing that MK hardly existed 50 years ago - now they want to build it again in bits all over the route.
Diana Blamires@diana_blamires
Final piece of East West Rail track to be laid in New Year connecting Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Winslow, Bicester & Oxford for the 1st time in 50 years railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/track…
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Has anyone been damaged by said wasps? Yes, they drip and attract wasps (experience) - bet no one ever picked them. Replace with less worrying fruit!
Bonkers Busway Cambs News@BonkersBusway
Soon the only ‘orchards’ left will be a collection of letters on signage marking developments devoid of wildlife. Words that are empty & meaningless, much like the promises of “biodiversity net gain” as concrete is poured #SaveOurOrchards #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🍎🍐🐝🪓 change.org/p/save-the-gre…
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Whatever the ‘niceties’ not long ago @michaelgove and @luhc were supporting the views of local government!! So ..?
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So so true! But many of us are praying that they won’t be delivered - meanwhile householders and farmers and nature lovers are in limbo at best and under blight at worst. @luhc @transportgovuk @RishiSunak It’s enough to make you not vote!
Edward Leigh@EdwardALeigh
Instead, £75m has purchased a stack of reports for projects that may never be delivered. The other £100m has paid for projects that have been or are being delivered, most of which are of dubious benefit and poor to very poor value for public money. /END
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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
Bonkers Busway Cambs News@BonkersBusway
Help us send a message to @CambsCC. Join @CambridgePPF in the fight to #SaveCotonOrchard change.org/p/save-the-gre… 🌳🍎🚌❌
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Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 retweetledi
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
John Harris@johnharris1969
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/commentisfree/…
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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
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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. 👏👏👏
BBC Panorama@BBCPanorama
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
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Stats without any supporting detail. A way to get around the true meaning of Leveling Up @luhc @michaelgove In the name of the forgotten but for the benefit of those with £ and influence. #gov #unis #developers #housebuilders & to the detriment of all of us by envir distruction.
Mark Williamson@markrwilliamson
£1m funding earmarked to address ‘stark inequalities’ in Greater Cambridge - to ‘share the benefits of the growth driven by the city’s knowledge economy’. According to @Cambridge_Uni, Cambridge has 5,500 ‘knowledge-Intensive’ businesses generating more than £20bn annually.
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Yes - when I asked Beth West questions at one of the
Consultations’ she just came out with techdigoop over and over! This is surely not what @transportgovuk @luhc mean by ‘considering local concerns? Or is it?
BFARe @BFARe.org.uk@BFARE2
The Conservative mayor replied: “I have challenged Beth West chief executive as vigorously as I possibly can. It’s very difficult to challenge somebody who doesn’t want to be challenged, or sits in a room and smiles at you & won’t answer questions.
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“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
Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
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
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