Simon Marsh

Tweets on town planning, nature and birds. Views my own.

[Pelagic Publishing @pelagicpublish]

Published today! Planning for Nature by Simon Marsh 📖

This timely book recounts battles won and lost but also imagines a better future for planning and nature.

#townplanning #builtdevelopment #natureconservation #protectedsites

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@HMWTBadger Consultation draft is not available at that address!

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@jeff_kn0tt @CatsProtection Jeff, I wasn’t expecting to hear that! But all the best for your new role

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@KeasdenKate Best wishes Kate. Hope to catch up with you in the new year

[Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust @HMWTBadger]

📢Together with @NaturalEngland @Natures_Voice @WildLondon and over 1000 individuals and organisations we OBJECT to the planning application at Broadwater Lake.

➡️Read our response here:
https://t.co/tNb2bCKNko

⏰You still have time to object today!

[Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust @HMWTBadger]

Read our joint letter with @WildLondon to @MayorofLondon outlining the threat to Broadwater Lake from a major development proposed by @Hillingdon that could set a dangerous national precedent.

👉https://t.co/KJixE8OgQL

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My blog on the threat to Broadwater Lake SSSI https://t.co/LnUJlIdJYC

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Our campaign to protect Broadwater Lake SSSI has launched - please join us!

[Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust @HMWTBadger]

🚨 A nationally protected wetland, #BroadwaterLake, is under threat.

⚠️ Hillingdon Council's proposed Watersports Facility on this SSSI endangers #wildlife & undermines environmental protections.

👉 Object to the planning application now: https://t.co/ZOjorsXiIM

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

"@RishiSunak also mentioned new roads. Assurances are rapidly needed that they won't harm vital nature areas and align with commitments to protect 30% of land for nature by 2030 and reach Net Zero, as part of a sustainable transport strategy" 🚲👇https://t.co/2RsuWmLNmL (4/4)

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@ChrisGPackham My response here https://t.co/0lmSjrLKdX I'm currently researching for a book on planning diasters for nature - you're in it!

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My reaction to the latest twist in the HS2 saga. If you have a story about HS2 and nature, please get in touch!
https://t.co/0lmSjrLKdX

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@AnthonyBrowneMP My blog on this https://t.co/SJLKIa2Xbv

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My blog on Gove's plan for Cambridge, and why the Sunday Telegraph got it wrong.
https://t.co/SJLKIa2Xbv

[Richard Benwell @RSBenwell]

Today, DEFRA appointed 48 bodies to lead Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

There's already huge effort & money pouring into the strategies, but the legal link with planning remains a flimsy "have regard duty", so it could be for naught.

A fix is possible in #LevellingUp bill.

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

Net zero progress is too slow, today's @theCCCuk Progress Report says 🚨

One key ask is a review of road projects against Govt’s env targets 🔖

We agree – without a strategic spatial plan with net zero & nature at its heart, planning will not deliver the change we need 🏞️

[Simon Marsh @SimonMplanning]

My reaction to recent proposals on planning reform
@LukeSMurphy @InstituteGC @WCL_News @JeffRSPB
https://t.co/keLNdY1TWF

[IPPR @IPPR]

💡| New report: To reach net-zero, England needs to produce 4.5GW from onshore wind by 2030. But at the current rate of progress, we won't reach this level for 4,700 years.

The planning system needs to reform to build a net zero world.

Read more here: https://t.co/BzJWaIO9lb

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

Transport is the largest contributor to GHG emissions & can cause harm to nature 🚗

But the Govt's revised National Networks NPS does not contain a strategic spatial plan to ensure net zero & nature targets are met 🔍

@SimonMplanning writes for Link 👇

https://t.co/tyiR85gB1E

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My blog for @WCL_News on the draft National Networks National Policy Statement - We need a new vision for the road ahead https://t.co/jZpsnKmeSH

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The government is heading down the wrong road on transport https://t.co/20iFSvgn3x