Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups across South East England.
Council in Surrey launching an action fund for projects which help tackle the impact of climate change, BBC News (Jul 13, 2024) — Elmbridge Borough Council say the fund is for projects that make a "tangible difference" to education around carbon emissions, biodiversity enhancement, and energy, water, and waste reduction
June 2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast, theguardian.com (Jun 27, 2024)
- Horse Hill: Historic win as Supreme Court upholds landmark climate case, Sarah Finch, wealdactiongroup.org.uk (Jun 20, 2024) — Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by giving planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill in the Surrey countryside without considering the climate impacts of when the oil is inevitably burned, the Supreme Court has ruled today.
April 2024[edit | edit source]
- Five ways community is at the heart of Brighton Festival, positive.news (Apr 24, 2024)
- Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)
March 2024[edit | edit source]
- Why we need to change direction on building homes, sustrans.org.uk (Mar 10, 2024) — "Our report shows how better design and investment decisions – based on ‘gentle density’ and sustainable transport – can deliver the same number of homes on just 40% of the land."
February 2024[edit | edit source]
- Oxfordshire housing development ‘should be blocked due to failing sewage system’, theguardian.com (Feb 27, 2024)
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
- Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Oct 12, 2023) — These vast sums should be spent improving our ‘second-tier’ cities – not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural south
- ‘Dead storage’ and ‘imminent risk to supplies’: documents reveal how England’s water companies struggled in last summer’s heatwaves, unearthed.greenpeace.org (Aug 23, 2023) — Internal briefings expose Environment Agency concerns that reservoir levels could drop so low the water would be untreatable and that companies might break the law
- Ministers accused of ‘environmental crime’ over South Downs oil drilling, theguardian.com (Aug 23, 2023)
- Over 25,000 oppose quarry extension into ancient wood, woodlandtrust.org.uk (Aug 02, 2023) — "Over 25,000 of you joined us in responding to the consultation on the shocking proposal."
- Oaken Wood: The largest destruction of ancient woodland this century, stuartjeffery.net (Jul 17, 2023)
- Kent and Sussex hosepipe ban announced amid water shortage, BBC News (Jun 19, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- The Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing – but this is another crisis of their own making, John Harris, The Guardian (Nov 27, 2022)
- How Sussex farmers plan to rewild a nature-rich green corridor to the sea, The Guardian (Jul 22, 2022)
