Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃

Housing, Transport, Poverty and doing our best for the Environment, together we can make a difference. All views are my own.

[Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃 @Need_Not_Greed]

Circular economies needed. Natural capital not GDP, reduce what you buy (easy for some in a cost of living crisis), repair, reuse, rent, refuse, redesign and recycle. Whether it is an empty house or a piece of clothing the ethics are the same. Invest in public transport not roads

[Kevin Dale 🍃💚🍃 SHIMBY @ExplorerDale]

Who really thinks that infinite economic growth in our finite little country is desirable, essential for progress and in any way #Sustainable?

The reality it is a death by a thousand cuts for nature, wildlife & the countryside.
#AttackOnNature
#NaturesVoice

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

In the UK, you are not allowed to cut, prune, or remove trees and bushes during the main bird nesting season, which runs from 1 March to 31 August. Plus, you must not cause or permit another person to cut or trim such a hedgerow.
#NestingSeason #Hedgerows
https://t.co/kRcOsGwEI1

[Monica Hone 🍃💚🌿🤍💜 @MonicaHone]

This was ~6 years ago.

Buried by Stephen Kelly (awarded MBE services to planning this year) at the planning meeting that approved that next phase of growth, at the expense of our rivers and nature.

There is STILL no new source of water. Growth is still being green lighted.

[Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃 @Need_Not_Greed]

Good to see an MP standing up for wildlife. https://t.co/giLxSVmNEP

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

@SteveReedMP @OliDugmore

[Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃 @Need_Not_Greed]

How can they still be getting Government funding? https://t.co/6PnUBeBeAB

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

He can deregulate as much as he wants but the houses won't get built. He can get as furious as he wants with bats, snails and nimbys, but that won't help.
What he actually needs to do is calm down and speak to @CommunityPlann1 about what the housing crisis really is (and how to solve it)

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

Great to be able to show the missed opportunities that our hundrds of thousands of long-term empty homes represent and the damage they do to neighbours and communities on Points West, Evening News: 07/08/2025: https://t.co/CdPSUfJ1US via @bbciplayer

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

Hey @Keir_Starmer no one voted for you to kill wildlife and remove affordable housing which is what these Tories are asking you to do. You were voted to be different than the Conservatives. This is your chance to prove that by ignoring them. Save the bats! 🦇

[Dowager Duchess Louise Ryder @LJRyder16]

@ExplorerDale @BBCNews Serious problems with building on brownfield
Permissions/required building control can cost upto several £m before a property is even built plus delays /over whelmed Councils
Add soaring material proces
Building grind8ng to a HALT in Bristol on Brownfield
More complicated ...

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

This is an excellent suggestion. 👏
Well said @pauldezylva
The government’s recent rhetoric on nature, and especially about those who seek to protect it, is untrue, adversarial, and downright rude!

[Kevin Dale 🍃💚🍃 SHIMBY @ExplorerDale]

There ARE more planning permissions, BUT currently developers are building LESS.

Market housing is just proving too expensive in a cost of living crisis.

HOWEVER big developers want to keep the prices up, not build more and undermine their land-bank value & profits.
@BBCNews

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thousands of homes across England are being built without community infrastructure, leaving families without access to playgrounds, schools, shops, doctors.

Politicians bask in deregulation and housing targets, developers count profits.
https://t.co/dn9ODON0rq

[Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃 @Need_Not_Greed]

Happening all over the country while brownfield sites are ignored.

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

I retired 4 years ago from a firm of solicitors in Felixstowe.

In that 4 years, 5 massive new housing estates have been or are being built by Persimmon Homes, Bloor Homes and Bellway in Felixstowe. They're all on, what was, prime farmland. Villages are being joined to town. Traffic is awful.

There's planning permission for thousands more houses too.

The High Street called Hamilton Road now has Turkish barber shops and candy stores, all fully staffed by foreigners but with no customers.

There's numerous vape and nail shops now. Most of the banks have gone too.

Nearby Martlesham has thousands of new houses being erected by Taylor Wimpey on, what was, farmland. The school there won't be finished for 10 years though.

The Orwell Bridge has lanes closed for improvement works. For months. Meaning miles and miles of traffic jams and gridlock in Ipswich.

The schools and GP surgeries are oversubscribed. Ipswich Hospital waiting lists are ridiculously long.

But still they keep building houses. Are they mad?

[Need before Greed 🍃 💚🍃 @Need_Not_Greed]

It's so obviously the right thing to do, so why isn't it happening here?

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

And so we need nowhere near the 380,000 homes a year + new towns the government is intent on building .

We only need 120,000 homes per annum.

(And not one of those needs to be on greenfield. We have 3.5m alternatives https://t.co/TQXq1fg8EE)

From https://t.co/8VcrKBSALi

[Chidswell Action Group 🍃💚🍃🦎🦇🦎🦇 @ChidswellGroup]

Less than 1 week to the Judicial Review.
If permission is quashed this could set a legal precedent for other campaigns.
Fundraising link in comments.
Take a look at our story 👇🏻
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[Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 @BrianMcHugh2011]

Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands
Garments thrown out by consumers from Next, George, M&S and others found in or near conservation areas

The dangers of fast fashion

https://t.co/S7xZUEMg6Z

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Let’s see this directed to regeneration of commercial and public buildings, brownfield and empty homes, not to concreting countryside

https://t.co/cVs4ucnUmy

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

The Conservatives rejected swift bricks in government, and now Labour is backtracking despite supporting them in opposition. Swifts are one of Britain’s most iconic birds, and in steep decline, along with other cavity-nesting species. All they need is a brick with a hole. It’s simple, low-cost, and essential.

Without them, our towns risk becoming sterile and devoid of this accessible and vital part of nature. Over half a million people and leading experts support mandating swift bricks - why won’t the Government act?