SmartGrowthUK

An informal coalition of organisations and individuals interested in promoting the Smart Growth approach in the UK.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

"Forest City 1" reveals its plans for a "forest" would be fragmented strips surrounded by high-rise city & a central business district, thus maximizing the air, noise & light pollution + disturbance.
Maybe "urban parks" would describe it better.
https://t.co/41lU94HwQm

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@ClimateRealists The justification for the #DenialistScam never existed.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@BThorsten87103 To whom are you talking? Ordinary citizens with no financial interest other than concerns about the break down of civilisation in the face of global warming? Or blowhards in populist media, whose campaigning chimes with the lobbying by the oil and gas industry? Do tell.

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

‘Local residents outraged by rarely used car lanes that cost millions ‘

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@createstreets "We" may have got richer, but a large section of the country has got poorer. The increase in inequality masks that for the elite.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

While Westminster obsesses over by-elections and leadership contests, an official report warns that within years our food and water systems could fail. I’ve forced Govt to acknowledge a suppressed report on ecosystem collapse. But Ministers still aren’t facing the scale of the crisis.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@VinnieSull1van @Lost___London @PubHistoryTours Quite a lot of Victoria Street survived WWII bombing. But developers really got their teeth in during the 1960s and 1970s.

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

Cherwell District Council 'walks away' from warehouses decision. The authority has now said it would not give evidence when the decision goes before the planning inspector in September, after taking "legal and professional advice." https://t.co/bUtraSFvPS

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

Clearing scrub at the very height of the bird nesting season.
Uh-huh.

[Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc @isnit0]

This is true pro-activism. @paulpowlesland is a real British hero.

Actually improving nature despite legal threats and insane Government bodies.

Really puts the environmental virtue-signallers to shame.

Great piece from @Channel4News

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@Clarsonimus

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@KaneEmerson @HomeBuildersFed Given that the Government is slashing requirements for nutrient neutrality, BNG etc., you'll obviously be keen to reduce that figure and say what % of it is simply due to inflation.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@JunkScience Wouldn't ask your climate hoaxes friends but weather goes up and down and AGW is making extremes more extreme.

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

Politics must serve the public.

That’s why I’m calling to ban housing developer donations - their influence works against public good.

I also back Neil’s push to break the link between donors & public contracts.

Government must prioritise living standards over vested power.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@toadmeister Utter rwaddle. We're still on course for 2-3degC warming.

[Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson]

The 9k homes mentioned by Rachel Reeves below were greenlit on the promise of a Cambridge Water Credits scheme that more than two years on is still being devised, and may never work as proposed. In any case, it and the Fen reservoir are only to cover growth in the local plan.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@DanicaPriest @lfg_uk @GeorgeMonbiot @TonyJuniper The Greed Lobby at it again.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@ccdeditor Not what the scientists studying it are saying. Unless you count oil and gas burning as "natural"

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@jemmm85517813 Continued oil and gas consumption is seriously not affordable.

[SmartGrowthUK @SmartGrowthUK]

@SandieBlickem @theresa_may Apparently so. Fortunately, responsible people aren't swayed by populist blowhards working hard to advance oil and gas companies' agenda.