The Community Planning Alliance have designated Saturday April 18th as a Day of Action for Nature, Parks and Green Spaces.
While Selwood Garden Community has already been rubberstamped for approval we feel it is still important to show politicians that protecting green spaces is a shared national priority.
How You Can Help
Share a photo of your favourite local green space on social media with the hashtag #NatureDayOfAction
Copy and paste the following email
{TO} keir.starmer.mp@parliament.uk
{SUBJECT LINE} Hands off our nature, parks and green spaces
Dear Prime Minister
Before you came to power, and regularly since, you have said that you will not build on green spaces. Yet that is exactly what your Government is doing. Our green and pleasant land is at risk as never before.
• You have imposed sky-high housing targets on rural areas while there are enough brownfield sites, empty homes & commercial buildings and unbuilt planning permissions to create over 3 million homes
• You are asking the private sector to solve the housing crisis by building on green spaces, when it’s social housing that’s needed.
• You have brought in a Planning & Infrastructure Act which allows developers to pay to destroy habitats and introduced the Fingleton reforms which further weaken environmental protections.
• You have introduced so-called ‘grey belt’ rules which are unleashing development on thousands acres of pristine countryside in the green belt.
• You are industrialising the countryside with pylons and solar panels, when solar should be on rooftops and cables should be underground or subsea.
• Our town and city centres are facing dereliction in the absence of strong financial and planning incentives for regeneration
• Urban parks and playing fields are being sold, rented out for big commercial events or left to dereliction and sold to speculators
• You have asked your departments and agencies to regulate for growth instead of for communities and the environment.
And to top it off, you have blamed nature and communities, with an unpleasant and divisive rhetoric, for blocking development. Your government is destroying the very nature and countryside that voters love and want to protect. This is why today, 18th April, well over 100 communities all over the country are organising events to show politicians how important their green spaces, parks and nature are.
Enough is enough. Stop the attacks on nature, parks and green spaces.
Yours,
{INSERT NAME}
Join us in printing and sending this card to the Prime Minister so the government is inundated with mail from concerned residents.
{ADDRESS} Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
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