Rural Means Rural

Do you want to protect our countryside and wildlife for future generations?

Join our campaign to change planning policy for villages nationwide.

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

We are Rural Means Rural and we need your support!
Our aim is to change the way #planning works.
Here's a short video to help explain!
Please share our petition far and wide.
Together we can make a difference!
https://t.co/XSXKUREka1

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

@nicktolhurst And to come: fortunes made out of building solar farms on huge swathes of greenfield justified by the same urgency and necessity without prior and proper consideration.

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

@JulianClary Happy birthday wishes from Goldenhurst... year older than me!

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

@mhclg Great... more people loitering by the beach, in our lanes and on footpaths 😩 Praying that #CommonSense prevails and the key message of #StayAlert is enough to make folks realise we are still far from normality.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

July 2019 was the hottest recorded month ever. The four hottest Julys before that:

July 2018
July 2017
July 2016
July 2015

Anyone who does not understand the urgency of the climate crisis and plans to respond accordingly needs to get out of politics right now.

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Supporting this - all the Way! The tricks developers and landowners get up to to gain Planning permission is disgusting. No #netting should be allowed!

[SoMuchHappenin @SoMuchHappenin]

Fantastic that no #netting on hedges petition is now at 123K!!! @ExplorerDale @RosieP4 @stellastafford @Natures_Voice @ExtinctionR @SParkerGGG @greenarteries @jezardscribe1 pls retweet 2 friends & followers

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Use #brownfieldfirst - please retweet

[CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England @CPRE]

BREAKING: For the second year running, our analysis of council data has confirmed that we have enough brownfield land to build more than 1 million homes.

Let’s use #brownfieldfirst to protect our countryside. RT if you agree.

Full story: https://t.co/pdCWcGK38Z

[Romney Marsh Wools @Romneymarshwool]

More new arrivals 😍 The Romneys have begun lambing and look as though they are enjoying today’s sunshine ☀️

#lambing2019 #farmlife #mondaymotivation

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Another reason not to build sprawling new towns across our countryside

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

....and in addition to being insulted as NIMBYs we are constantly fed nonsense propaganda such as the reason that house prices are so high is the cost of land... These Annual Report figures clearly show Government Policy is helping builders increase their profits.

[Kevin Dale 🍃💚🍃 SHIMBY @ExplorerDale]

@RuralMeansRural

[Ashford Independents @AshfordIndepen1]

There are definite parallels between the growing Independent Group in Westminster & Ashford Independents. https://t.co/q1MQvvxJKp #ChangePolitics #Standup #IndependentGroup

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Ashford Local Plan 2030 now adopted by Ashford Borough Council. It will now define Planning Policy in the Borough and provides some protection from speculative developers as it demonstrates Five Year Land Supply. For now..!

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

😪load of politically correct tosh. Building communities indeed... de

[Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov @mhclg]

Earlier today at this year’s #DesignQualityConf ‘Better Design for Better Places’ at @unibirmingham, @lordnickbourne spoke about the role of communities in shaping the places they call home.

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

@mhclg @unibirmingham @lordnickbourne What a load of politically correct hot air! Building for communities indeed! Our communities are being steamrollered by the changes this Government made to the NPPF. We are not listened to and are called ‘nimbies’ when we try to defend our countryside and quality of life. Huh..😪

[CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England @CPRE]

We want to wish a happy #ValentinesDay to our greatest love of all: the English countryside! 💚 💕

If you could write our countryside a love letter, what would it say?

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Amazing walk this morning #NatureDates you should visit Aldington & Bonnington..Saw a pair of heron, a green woodpecker and FIVE buzzards! #Valentines2019 Love nature.

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Agree

[CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England @CPRE]

'For too long, our countryside, local councils and their communities have been let down by a failing planning system that prioritises delivering abstract housing targets over building homes that the people who need them can afford to live in.'

Agree?

https://t.co/XKOEjtkwpL

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Take on nimbys to win youth vote, Tories are urged. What a nerve!! We are ”protecting our house value!!” Not love of the countryside or lack of infrastructure or reduced quality of life .. No; it’s all about money ☹️ #ruralmatters #vote4change
https://t.co/AQMhN6cYVz

[CPRE, Campaign to Protect Rural England @CPRE]

It's #NationalTreeWeek - the annual celebration of everything that is wonderful about trees! 🌳🌲🍂🍃

What's your favourite British tree? Vote vote vote!

If your fave isn't below, let us know what it is 😊

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

Amazing what you find when you know what you are looking for!

[Nick Green @ShadoxhurstMan]

In Orelestone forest tonight, November Moths in their hundreds, delicately drifted past in front of my headlights. @mothsinkent

[Rural Means Rural @RuralMeansRural]

@xmasintenterden Was amazing! Thank you to everyone involved.