20 or 30 percent discount on housing still doesn't make it 'affordable'. Private developers game the system and control supply to keep market values high. The only way to fix the housing crisis is for government to build houses and rent them affordably #bbcqt

But to make this happen we need your support. Add your name here ✍️ 8/8 campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/143629/pe…

In England, we’ve seen no such commitment. That’s why we’re calling on the next Gov to #MakeHistory and end all forms of homelessness.
This must include:
🏠 building more social housing
🔨 repurposing empty homes
💰 investing in support services we know end homelessness.
7/8

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿The Welsh Gov has committed to a plan to end homelessness and these statistics clearly show the need to press ahead with this. Pushing forward and building more social housing at pace is critical.
6/8

End #homelessness with homes...
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Shelter
also see the #EmptyHomesOpportunity if we #BuyTheSupply
england.shelter.org.uk/professional_r…
Quicker, Cheaper and Greener
🏠 It’s less expensive to convert empty homes to social rent and up to 75% less embodied carbon per unit.

Our Vice-Chairman Friends of Carrington Moss 💚🌳🐾🚴‍♀️🐴🚶‍♂️💚 visits a local school to chat about planning. So important that young people understand how it impacts their future.

Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 S. Staffs, pylon city, the sheer number of applicants looking to get BESSs,Solar Farms is bonkers. We're campaigning against glib planning apps, which they think are slam dunks. Our strap line is 'If you're green, why are Otters, woodland, environment not safe, they're green too'

Again today, a farmer under instruction from Defence Infrastructure Organisation cutting grasslands at Middlewick despite protected skylarks nesting in the grass Essex Police - Rural, Wildlife & Heritage Crime The Gazette Colchester City Council Will Quince MP 🇬🇧 Colchester Labour Colchester Green Party Colchester Conservatives Colchester Liberal Democrats Andrea LV

Nature is not a priority in Labour controlled Gtr Mcr either - they have totally ignored Natural England Natural England NW advice not to build on peat moss & bmv agricultural land! Ben Goldsmith

Some really great questions raised by the students, Michael Gove should ensure they have an explicit role in the planning ecosystem, they have to live with the consequences of the decisions made today!

UK cycling levels are in decline, according to new statistics from @transportgovt. 🚴📉

Provisional figures show a decline of 2.9% during 2023, and an increase of just 2% since 2019. Meanwhile driving is back to 99% of pre-pandemic levels.

But there's still hope... 🧵

#BugsMatter #CitizenScience survey shows further decreases in UK insect numbers

🪰The troubling extent of #InsectDeclines in the UK has been highlighted once again by the 2023 Bugs Matter citizen science survey published today.

ℹ️ Read the full story 👇
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Life is blinking out all around us.

‘Cheap’ food is starting to look not so cheap after all.

For longer journeys beyond Cambridge-Oxford, East West Rail will not offer ‘viable alternatives’ to existing services - will still be ‘more efficient’ to go via London, according to Network Rail👇.

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Thanks Alex Burghart and all the other MP’s in the region fighting for an integrated offshore grid

Conservative Environment Network Megan Batchelor National Grid ESO

Add in brownfield sites too….
#NoNatureNoFarmsNoFood

Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 Labour are trying to appeal to different parts of the electorate, but banging on about growth and upping house building is the opposite of protecting nature - it cannot be done!

Ian Fotheringham Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 Simon Gallagher ⚡Energy & EVs ⚡ Peter Harding philip ranyard James Watson CEng, FIET Elizabeth Budd 🍃💚🍃 Banquo's ghost🍃💚🍃 Sense of Place It’s not a case of liking or disliking pylons, the fact is they are very harmful to the environment & when a report says adopting an offshore grid approach for EA saves consumers money, is greener & quicker, I think it needs investigating. Be foolish not to!! 😁.

We can but hope with Labour but the Yimby and blockers rhetoric does not bode well.

Nor do they show any interest in listening when it comes to better energy transmission infrastructure solutions