New Rules For Protest Actions
1 These ideas are from a person, “P*”, who has been a ‘campaigner’ since the 1970s. He came up with them based on an instinctive emotion-legal reaction to four decades (!) of observing ‘protest’ – a matured and considered reaction which says: it is really time we updated our culture to take into account […]
OxCam Arc GOV UK Survey Reply
Response to GOV.UK ‘feedback’ request after responding to OxCam Arc survey Question 1 “ – Whether I have sought information elsewhere and if so from whom”: Answer: My sources of information are primarily all the noble campaigners whom I see on Twitter or as contributors to City Voice Website. Question 2 “- Any other comments?” […]
Stella Stafford
“If London was built to the same density as Milton Keynes it would cover East Anglia – this is precisely what worries many of us” – Stella Stafford was transformed by events from being an author of cosy fiction into a campaigner – dealing with brute fact – or at least weird proposals. The one […]
Summary of Proposed Biodiversity Legislation
SUMMARY 1 Establish system of EBGs (Established Biodiversity Guardians). 2 They establish Biome Value (BV) for each site. Sliding scales from Keep 100% to All action allowed 3 Especially for Parks etc., >> Intangible Gain Valuation (IGV) (IV is non-cash) decided byLOCALS. 4 Every case is local. No trade-offs. No tariffs. Every site is […]
Mad Council Disease
Mad Council Disease (MCD) is a bovine encephalopathy that affects some councils, sometimes unexpectedly, even when the body politic is apparently healthy and in possession of all its faculties. It has to be guarded against – rather like thunderstorms, which can come unpredictably and require severe and strong channels in place to deal with them. […]
Upend The System
In May 2018 the public was asked to comment on the government’s new ‘National Planning Policy Framework’ This is one response Contents ‘0’ “Why this head-on revolutionary approach?” 1 Nature of the public voice 2 Why this proposal for radical change? 3 The new central principle: planning should grow out […]