Friends of Betteshanger Country Park

We are the Friends of Betteshanger Country Park working together to secure this precious site for nature. Please support our Crowd Justice Funder.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

The Friends of Betteshanger are moving to Bluesky. Thanks for all the interest and support. It’s been so appreciated.

[Town & Country Planning Association @theTCPA]

🗣️ 'Public trust in planning has declined partly due to the consistent drive to marginalise the voice of the public. Communities are assumed to be incapable of understanding their own best interests – leading to infantile name calling around ‘Nimbys’.' https://t.co/SQVcpLw7j4

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

Latest Government ideas on planning and nature recovery. It looks as if developers will no longer have to carry out ecological assessments of individual sites. This will be replaced by strategic plans that they can pay into.
https://t.co/R3sWYXQaws

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

Here is the consultation on the Government’s working paper on Development and Nature’s Recovery.
Please share.
https://t.co/UhadgpIJhg

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

Here is a link to the Governments working paper on development and nature recovery. You can respond by answering questions at the end and adding your own comments

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

The Government had just produced a new working paper on Development and Nature Recovery. What they are proposing won’t work for sites like Betteshanger Park where a range of protected species are impacted. We will be responding to the expected consultation.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@RSBenwell At Betteshanger Country Park development will result in harm to a range of protected species including Lizard Orchids, Water Voles, Fiery Clearwing moths and removal of open mosaic habitat. An example of where a Nature Restoration Fund just won’t work.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@StevePa46290725 Over 620 Lizard Orchids at Betteshanger Country Park will be dug up from the second largest colony in the UK and ‘translocated’ to make way for a surf lagoon.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@CheshireWT Appalling that a Local Wildlife Site should be threatened in this way. The planning system is facilitating destruction of the natural world. Wildlife doesn’t stand a chance.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Researchers from @sheffielduni visited nearly 6,000 houses across 42 developments , and this is what they found .

Read the summary and/or full version here:

https://t.co/Hu3Mxd0LDE

[Wild Justice @WildJustice_org]

On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE.

In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments.

Answer: NO.

Read the report here: https://t.co/lOQucjUkNK

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[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

Thank you Wild Justice for commissioning this important report.
https://t.co/lCtsdUz6wM

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

Working paper from government on planning.
https://t.co/9XGxRGQ2L9

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@ProfBillMcGuire @UKLabour @AngelaRayner Angela Raynor really should know that newts do not hold up development. What about District licensing schemes?

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@ffswhy @paulpowlesland At Betteshanger the developer was able to remove ponds where great crested newts were present because he agreed to pay into a district licensing scheme. Even are rarest and most vulnerable species are not protected under the planning system.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

@paulpowlesland Great crested newts don’t hold up development even though they are a protected species. Developers can remove newts and their habitat if they pay into a District Licensing scheme for recreation of newt habitat elsewhere.

[Friends of Betteshanger Country Park @SaveBHCP]

The latest from Angela Raynor. Bitterly disappointing that the Labour Party appears to be taking an anti wildlife stance when it comes to development. https://t.co/7ytSyLmeTc

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

The Prime Minister was wrong to blame nature protection & regulators for stopping development🏡

Read our joint letter to @Keir_Starmer calling for an urgent meeting to discuss how #nature & sustainable development can go hand-in-hand👇

https://t.co/pfdtk59dng

📷Cassie Crocker