For anyone who lives in Rothesay or has sailed doon the water, this landmark church has dominated the iconic Rothesay Skyline for 170 years. Designed by the prominent architect of his time, Charles Wilson and housing many memorials to Brandanes this building is not only an important part of Rothesay's architectural history but also its social history.

IMPORTANT: please email your views, including the words "I object" and your reasons why to [email protected] by 6th November 2015. You can view the proposal here: www.rbkc.gov.uk/marlborough Live footage of the Marlborough demolition here showing the playground in question: https://timelapse.regenology.co.uk/api/embedded/DYz/ The Council plans to build a 40,000 sq ft block of offices & shops plus public walkway on the children's playground and is applying to the Secretary of State for Education to dispose of this playground (termed "playing fields" in S77 of the School act) We object strongly to 559 m2 of playground being disposed of as per RBKC's Council pre-application consultation letter of September 2015. We object to the fact that pupils at Marlborough Primary School in years 1-6 will have to play on rooftop play areas because all their playGROUND has been taken! Only nursery and reception children will have a ground level play space, the minimum necessary to allow children to be dropped off and collected. The Council's own advisory board, Architects Appraisal Panel warned that the commercial building compromised the new school and that it should be “substantially scaled back or, better still, removed altogether”. Having reviewed the planning documents and reports, we believe that the decision to demolish the Victorian school building was taken directly in order to rebuild the new school on a smaller site, thus creating space for the commercial building – we do not agree that there was “surplus land” on the site. We believe that the public walkway has been largely designed to take customers past the shops on the ground floor of the commercial building rather than from the necessity of a walkway here. In the consultation letter, it is stated that the revenue from the commercial building will be used “to maintain council services across the borough” and does not fit in with the S77 government guidelines that money should be reinvested in school sports (priority), recreation or education facilities.

The HIGH GROVE is the epitome of your friendly local pub and has been serving the Gatley estate for over 50 years. Our local pub is at the heart of the community. The pub is also the social hub of the area, providing local entertainment including regular quiz nights, evening events to raise money for local charities and hosting live televised sporting events. The pub is expected to close at the end of 2015 and we desperately need your help to save it. An application to register the High Grove as an Asset of Community Value has now been submitted to Stockport Council and will be heard at the Area Committee meeting on Sept 29th. The potential closure of the High Grove public house demonstrates how vulnerable communities are to speculative and aggressive development tactics, we need you to help us urge the Council to accept the application to list the pub immediately. This will ensure planning permission has to be sought and approved by the council for the pub to be demolished or converted to any other use. The listing also gives the community an opportunity to potentially come together to form a co-operative group to buy and run our local pub. Please sign the campaign and ask your neighbours to do also. Anyone you know who frequents the High Grove or lives in the Gatley and Cheadle area should also be asked to sign it. Protect our pubs from developers.

Quarrying here will ruin village life. Heavy quarry lorries will be passing close by Alrewas but through Fradley, Kings Bromley, Yoxall and hamlets in between, poor air quality is inevitable and quarrying will ruin the beautiful countryside and kill wildlife. Best and fertile soil for the successful farming and agricultural industry in the area will be lost for good. There is a national shortage of infill and replacing the soil will be impossible. Do we want yet more lakes and water facilities as a result? Do we want to lose our farming and agricultural industry and put farmers out of work? There are safety issues concerning the large, high pressure gas pipelines that run beneath the earmarked area. Mistakes could be fatal and a quarry here will pose a serious security risk. The explosion of just one pipe could cause fatalities in nearby villages. Imagine what 8 could do! How do we manage the flows of people in and out of the area to keep the gas pipe safe against a terrorist attack? This is a popular area for tourists. This is because of the wonderful country views and open countryside, listed, historic buildings such as Wychnor Golf and Country Club, the Millennium Way and other public country walks, the canal and Fradley Junction, and historic villages and buildings used and visited by tourists from around the globe. 3 quarries will surely degrade the area, all of the above will be impacted, removing the attraction for tourists and cutting off valuable tourist income to the local communities. This area has suffered greatly from quarrying. There are already a number of quarries in Barton Under Needwood, Alrewas, Elford that are operational and being extended. Together with HS2, 3 more quarries will be devastating for the area. How much more can one small area take? We know the gravel has to be supplied from somewhere but there are other, more suitable areas that SCC should consider that will not impact villages, are not in areas already suffering from many years of quarrying and do not pose a safety and security risk. We would also argue that the UK does not recycle aggregate materials as much as it could and in comparison to other European countries our efforts are poor. If recycling was done properly and well, so many quarries would not be needed. Please help us stop the constant degradation of our environment and countryside. Make our government and local Council think about the impact on people, safety and local business. Please sign and stop quarrying in this area!

London and Quadrent over the years have gone from being a caring organisation providing social accommodation to those in need. It seems however that in recent years they have become very much about making profit, investing in redevelopment homes that are part buy/rent. They have been very underhand and lied on several occasions to long term residents of the small estate in Sydenham SE26 and seem to be railroading this development through Lewisham Council.

In Scotland the owners of at least 3.45 million acres (18% of all rural land) cannot be identified because the owners shelter behind nominees or trustees registered in offshore & foreign jurisdictions. Transparency International and David Cameron (UK Prime Minister) agree that this creates an environment in which tax is avoided and in which corruption (eg money laundering) can thrive. The clause stated above was recommended for inclusion in the Land Reform Bill by the LRRG to address this issue and this was supported by the Scottish Govt, but it was not included in the Bill published in June 2015. It seems that the wishes of Scottish landowners have been given more weight than the the interests of the country and its people.

KCC’s Proposed modifications to the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan (MWLP) 2013-30. state that subject to certain conditions, planning permission will be granted for proposals associated with the exploration, appraisal and development of oil, gas and unconventional hydrocarbons. This blanket approach ignores the inherent risks of fracking which have been well documented around the world. The dangers are real and critical. Consultation on the subject has been buried in obscurely worded documents that will have successfully slipped below the radar of most of the residents of Kent. This is not an acceptable democratic approach. KCC must ensure they represent the views of the residents and land-owners of Kent before permitting any fracking activity to take place on Kentish soil.

Open spaces are the lungs of our wonderful borough and the proposed change of use of this Metropolitan Open Land sets a precedent that could gradually consume this protected land. •Potential trade-offs have been discussed with the private landowner to develop housing on the site •This land is protected as stipulated by the Lord Mayor in the London Plan 2015 who said that Metropolitan Open Land must be preserved unless very extreme circumstances exist. Once gone, such open space is lostforever. IMPLICATIONS FOR US ALL ARE: - Threat to Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) and Ealing Cricket Club Conservation Area. The build would remove protected MOL and set a precedent for further unwelcome development. - A significant increase in traffic in our neighbourhood with the possibility of local gridlock. Many local residents recognise that something needs to be done to prevent inappropriate development of the former Barclays Bank Sports Ground and want restoration of the grounds for much needed fitness and leisure activities that is very much lacking in the Ealing North and Central community .

The future of the very first inter-city passenger railway, which opened on 15th September 1830, is under threat. The Manchester Liverpool Road railway station is where it all began: from the railways of old, which made our modern civilisation possible, to the railways of the today, which provide the sustainable transport needed to combat climate change. This incredible part of our international history, with its grade 1 and 2* listed buildings, is in essence, a working station, though it is cared for by the Museum of Science and Industry. It is still connected to the National Rail Network: you can visit the station today, on a real steam train, just as people have done for the past 185 years. Network rail want to change that: as part of an otherwise welcome scheme to connect Manchester Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly, they plan to sever the line. The very first railway will no longer BE a railway: just a museum piece, nothing more. Part of a depressing wider trend of poor strategy and planning, slow obliteration of Northern history and culture and legal wrangling over common sense issues at the tax payers expense, this case involves a 3 million pound "deal" with the Museum of Science and Industry who have abandoned their responsibility to protect this site and a crass lack of respect by National Rail for the history of their own raison d'etre.

The Conservatives running B&NES have ignored the strong objections of local people and put forward three terrible sites for a Park & Ride, all of them on the beautiful meadows. The options would all wreck the views enjoyed by residents and visitors and ruin our recreational use of the valley. The size of the sites are all too small and on their own won’t do much about the horrendous jams on London Road.

How are we going to get furniture and deliveries to our door if we open our gate and a house is there. How are the fire brigade or worse the ambulance men going to get access to residents or carry a body out in a box. How do we get our rubbish bins out. Where do we pensioners park our cars the roads are full already we have a school nearby when a child is killed will you listen then.

Scotland has the most concentrated land ownership in the developed world. Just 432 people own half of the private land. Land prices are far too high - this is why rents are extortionate, and why young people are leaving when they can't even get a scrap of land for housing. For Scotland to flourish and every community to have a say over their resources and their future, we need a strong land reform bill that really tackles all these issues. We're up against a wealthy landowning lobby who want to water down the Scottish government's proposals - so we must make our voice heard! Tell your MSPs to back the five demands of the #OurLand campaign and make sure we get a bill that can change Scotland for the better. The Our Land Campaign was set up by Common Weal, Women for Independence, the Scottish Land Action Movement and campaigners Andy Wightman and Lesley Riddoch to highlight the way unavailable and unaffordable land blights development in the countryside and cities.