Save our countryside

[nightshade]

Petitions signed and passed on. I am not to sure but I believe the previous government opened the door to build on brownfield and greenbelt sites,some woman was seeing the bill through but I cannot remember her name.
Bath and north east somerset are currently touting for advertising on a traffic roundabout which is a wildlife refuge and link in a green corridor. A large house with a huge mature garden now has a bungalow sprouting on the land. I do despair when you look and see how fragmentary the wildlife organisations are, lots of little groups with little money taking on the government. United we have a big voice, Divided we are muttering in the dark.

[loripo]

Have signed both. I thought we lived in a democracy, but it seems whatever these people say, once they are elected to office, whoever supports them with the most funds get their mitts on the goodies. Look at the Olympic village, already , before it's even been used, it's been sold off for 'development' - cheap because the living units don't have kitchens! And as far as housing goes where I live in London all of the new housing is high-end, gated, concierged, supplied with gyms etc etc. 16000 due to be built at Nine Elms - think at least two cars per 'flat' and another lot on the old Chelsea Barracks site just across the river and the traffic won't be going anywhere.
It actually makes me feel sick.

[nightshade]

I noticed the expensive building and the gates across the river pathway, when I walked from the Isle of Dogs up to the pub Pride of Whitby

[Billabong Karen]

I just want to quote Joni Mitchell (you can sing along, if you like! )

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

[The Woodman]

Cumbria - another aspect of the insidious development is the increasing practise of purchasing large detached properties with spacious gardens, demolishing the house and building small enclaves within the boundaries.

An example - a national environmental organisations area office was a large house, a typical former country gentlemans residence in a village close to Kendal. It was a joy to go there, cool and serene, easy access, village shop and post office, etc but in a cost cutting exercise it was sold to a developer who demolished it, stripped the grounds of the lovely Tulip Tree, Yews and Wheatley Elm. It's now known as Beathwaite Gardens!

[treecreeper]

I remember reading somewhere that farmers had a joke crop rotation pattern that went 'barley, barley, bungalows, Bermuda'

[The Woodman]

Very good!

[PMG]

Originally Posted by treecreeper

I remember reading somewhere that farmers had a joke crop rotation pattern that went 'barley, barley, bungalows, Bermuda'

..... maybe the last bit will go ........ Bermuda, tsunami, fallow, fallow .........

[The Woodman]

Originally Posted by PMG

..... maybe the last bit will go ........ Bermuda, tsunami, fallow, fallow .........

Oh deer!

[Sneezewort]

Today is the last day to sign these two petitions against the impending planning free-for-all. The government consultation on this issue is now closing and the petitions will be handed in on Monday 17th October.

So that we can register as much support as possible for our countryside, if you have not already done so, please do sign and ask your family, friends and colleagues to sign too.

38degrees Save Our Countryside
38 Degrees | Save our countryside

National Trust - Planning for people
https://www.planningforpeople.org.uk/?campid=PLAN3

38degrees have only 111,267 signatures so far, and the National Trust currently have 163,532. I feel sure more people than this really care about our countryside and its future. Planning law may sound mind-numbingly boring but I believe its effect on our lives cannot be overstated.

As the National Trust says, yes we want economic growth, but not at any cost. I feel we must keep throwing democratic bricks at this government. Please support this cause if you can.

Many thanks.
Julie