Blogs

Since I blogged earlier this week, the National Planning Policy Framework has hit the headlines in quite a big way. The National Trust campaign has created quite a stir (“National Trust warns planning changes could tear up countryside” in...

It’s forty years since proposals to create London’s (then) third airport in the Thames stimulated the conservation movement to get its act together and start to gather the data that has become the bedrock of campaigns to protect some of our...

Back on 28 September I promised that you would be amongst the first to know the outcome of our negotiations aimed at getting agreement on how the Highways Agency will safeguard stone curlews as part of their proposal to dual the A11. Here's a link...

Trying to do radio interviews on the East coast in December is always a bit of a challenge. Not only do you have to remember what you wanted to say, you need to make your lips work in the cold as well. Last Friday I was visiting the Wallasea Island...

The big news today is that the E.On is shelving plans for a new coal fired power station on the Thames at Kingsnorth. On its own it can be portrayed as a simple economic decision, but that would be to ignore the vigorous and high profile campaigning that...