Alastair Heath

VELUX BDM for Housing in GB&I, a cricketer, retired hockey player and wannabe golfer. Views are my own.

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

First @McLarenF1 signed golf bag giveaway!!

Just RT for a chance to win it!!

I’ll pick one winner on Monday 17th September… 🍀

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Return your unwanted Reform UK flyers to this address and it costs them £2.50 a pop.

Pop this address on an envelope with the flyer in, and pop it in a post box!

The more we return, the less they will send!

[Blueoak Estates @BlueoakEstates]

Proud partners of Velux, we're committed to crafting healthy homes with natural light and ventilation. Velux windows enhance our designs, like Tollemache Green, offering fresh air, light, and scenic views. Call 01244 323232 or 01829 707885 for details on the final home available.

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@jedi_cricket @PenistoneCC

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@TheBarmyArmy Gower and bumble

[Penistone CC @PenistoneCC]

https://t.co/pCPTaCAn5z @crowdfunderuk

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@rimmerbros Tr6

[Jonny Smith @Carpervert]

I was driving to a job in Chesterfield, Derbyshire this week and spotted a yellow Chrysler Avenger estate on someone's front lawn. The rain was hammering and it was dawn, so didn't note the road name. Can we put feelers out and find it? I want to try and save it. Please RT!

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?
https://t.co/jQ6oeyAkve via @38degrees

[I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏' @Ilovenostalgia]

Do you know why?

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@DatFatCricketer How did you find out?

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@TobyBurtonMusic @PenistoneCC I’m only a part timer nowadays as not required by management

[Blueoak Estates @BlueoakEstates]

An abundance of natural light floods the beautiful open plan apartments in Hildeburgh House ☀️ Three apartments remaining. Please call Bradshaw Farnham & Lea on 0151 625 8844 to arrange a viewing

📍 West Kirby, Wirral
🛏️ 2-3 Bedrooms
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https://t.co/yaMneW6HxT

[Blueoak Estates @BlueoakEstates]

In this hot weather, there are few things as rewarding as open @VELUX roof windows letting in a breeze of fresh air. Bliss ☀️

#velux #veluxtransformingspaces

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@BlueoakEstates The one with all the lovely VELUX

[Blueoak Estates @BlueoakEstates]

Today's the day you've been waiting for... the brochure, floor plans and specification for these incredible homes can now be viewed on our website. Maybe even go one step further and pick up the phone to reserve off-plan!

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[Blueoak Estates @BlueoakEstates]

Not long to go until the launch of Tollemache Green! To find out more about this amazing Cheshire development, visit our website. https://t.co/pgNRjIpu5x

[Alastair Heath @alheath001]

@CoachJonno @NorthamptonHC Have a good evening