"Several biologists regard Bishopsteignton as having ... greater biodiversity than any other parish in Devon" The local green spaces within the village add to the biodiversity of the Parish. The green space at The Lawns/Lawns End is no exception, with this beautiful area providing a vital role in the health and well being of both human and non-human residents of the village alike. The Lawns/Lawns End is an asset which is available to all and enjoyed by many residents. It offers a wide range of recreational and health benefits, both physical and mental wellbeing. Including dog walking, walking, sporting activities, picnicking, nature discovery, relaxation, and the general enjoyment of simply being outdoors. The Lawns/Lawns End is also of significant value to wildlife. It supports the grey long-eared bat, which is one of the rarest bats in the UK (and protected by European Law) by providing foraging and navigational routes. This bat has a maternity roost immediately adjacent to the Lawns/Lawns End which "is the biggest in Britain, and therefore of top national conservation importance". It also supports a species rich birdlife and is located within a known breeding territory of the rare Cirl bunting, which is a Wildlife and Countryside Act Schedule 1 species. Cirl buntings were once widespread and locally common across much of southern England, but are now rare and very range restricted. Bishopsteignton is an important area for this species.

We are petitioning the London Borough of Southwark to stop destroying trees, open spaces and graves in Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries and make the cemeteries nature reserves. Southwark Council is destroying the woods and graves of Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries for the largest grave mounding and excavation project in UK history. Southwark Council is destroying 12 acres of woodland, mounding over tens of thousands of public graves then excavating every grave over 75 years old for 'new' inner city burial. These woods are the lungs of London. These graves are our history and our heritage. We want the Camberwell Cemeteries saved and declared Local Nature Reserves, as Nunhead, Highgate, and Tower Hamlets Cemeteries now are, with the graves and monuments protected with respect for the dead, and woods for the living.

We’re regular people being denied our statutory legal rights by Lambeth our local council. A 3 storey ‘luxury’ block is being built inches from our back gardens without consulting us - the local residents. If the development succeeds, we will lose ALL our natural light! Further despite being asked numerous times via email, in writing and during face to face meetings they have REFUSED to supply full unedited structural plans with elevations and measurements or any information about the structures being built blocking ALL of the natural lighting from residents that have been living here for up to 30 years. If Lambeth and the Developers succeed in this construction without legal consequences, they will have effectively written the rule book on how to circumvent planning laws i.e. don’t tell residents about local developments thereby denying them their legal and statutory rights to challenge them. They would have set a precedent. Residents across London will lose their rights to vital life changing information about their own neighbourhood. Help give us a voice and help others that will face this problem!

There is a large and thriving horse riding community in this area and ramblers and dog walkers use the footpaths. All these activities improve public health and improve wellbeing reducing the burden on an overcrowded NHS. Thanet Local Plan talks about preserving 'green wedges' between the towns to stop them merging into one but THEN suggests building on most of the land at Manston so that Manston blurs into the Thanet Towns. The Manston Parkway extends the urban sprawl from Ramsgate to Cliffsend and further land will be designated along that strip as solar plant land. If the Airport was turned into housing the site would continue from Manston Parkway to Acol as further urban sprawl. There would be very little agricultural land left in Thanet. Basically the Plan talks about the 'distinctive nature' of Thanet's villages and then shows how its going to incorporate them into one big urban sprawl Highlighting and developing brownfield sites in Urban Thanet and run down areas should be prioritised over building on grade A agricultural land along with a local plan that acknowledges the importance of preserving a Green Belt between urban and rural Thanet. The Thanet Local Plan has highlighted "Green Wedges" between the towns to help preserve their identity but has made no reference to developing further and further out across Manston until urban sprawl reaches out to the Wantsum. The Council needs to ensure that development leaves a distinctive band of green undeveloped land between the towns and villages such as Manston, Acol, Minster, Monkton, St. Nicholas. Not only is the land grade A agricultural land but it is criss crossed with footpaths and bridleways which encourage the residents of Thanet out into the countryside. If all the areas highlighted for planning were built on we would have: Manston Green joining Manston to Ramsgate Westwood joining Manston to Westwood Westage extending out to Woodchurch Birchington expanding out around the preserved green island of Quex estate China Gateway Built up. Manston Parkway at Cliffsend and further Solar developments. Expansion of Thanet Earth (for which planning has been granted) Building of entire Manston Airport site to encompass Manston Park to Minster and Acol This would make the whole of Thanet an urban sprawl.

The aim of this is to gather support to save the old Rock Ferry High School and its surrounding environment from demolition and sell-off. Many residents have been informed about the intended demolition of the school buildings and the selling off of the playing fields and woodlands, while it appears, many more have not. Why is the RFHS & woodlands site worth saving? The oldest part of the school is Ravenswood House (built 1874 in the Gothic Revival style) is Grade II listed. The woodland area boasts a number of species. The site is the last open green space in the Rock Ferry area which is still used by the local community. More schools will be needed in the future, not less. There is a very short space of time to gather support and save the site. Perhaps you live in the area and oppose the proposed demolition? Perhaps you were a pupil or a teacher at the school and have memories of the site, or maybe you use the fields for recreational purposes? Please invite your family and friends to sign this petition and offer support in any way you can to save the site. https://www.facebook.com/SaveRockFerryHighSchoolandenvirons?ref=ts&fref=ts

This will potentially combat a social housing crisis in Kirkby, Greenbelt areas are soon to be built on to take the strain of the issue. There are currently over 70 vacant houses on Cherryfield Drive which were bought with CPO's (compulsary purchase orders) by Knowsley Council and were set to be demolished to make way for the superstore which has now been cancelled. The existing residents have been moved out to a new estate which was built on St Kevins playing fields in Northwood. All of these properties (prior to works) were in a good state of repair and are currently just shells which could be re assembled and lived in. Knowsley Council are commited to the demolition of these homes, a lot of which could easily be converted into single story "bugalo's" of which no developers are currently building, for elderly or disabled residents. "Tesco will also finish the current work to clear the site of the empty houses on Cherryfield Drive so that the site will be available for future development" At present there are no other developers or partners and in reality we cannot expect one to come along any time soon. As well as Kirkby, there are now currently another 48 Councils canvassing for the same thing, we may be in for a long wait! Please halt this demolition and begin a study into the potential re-use of these properties and protect our greenbelt area at the same time!

Birnbeck pier was built in the Victorian era and is the only pier of it's kind left in the country. The pier is important to westonians and those who visited the town over the years. Weston is a Victorian seaside town and our heritage needs protecting. The cost of repairing this building is enormous but the cost of the buildings demise is even greater. As many of the Victorian buildings are left to rot and ruin our tourist industry flails. Give the people of Weston back a pier which is dear to hearts of many and give tourists a reason to visit!

Its a human right to have shelter

Defend Our Rich Cultural Heritage West Dorset District Council has shocked and appalled archaeologists by insisting that the controversial Charles Street development be allowed to go ahead without an adequate archaeological investigation prior to the bulldozers moving in. The site lies within the walls of the Roman town, and its archaeology is likely to include vital clues to our town’s history, from prehistoric times to the present. Flying in the face of English Heritage’s advice, and acting against the spirit of the law where archaeology and development are concerned, the Council has decided to squander a major opportunity to explore and enhance the understanding of Dorchester’s past. Instead of a thorough investigation of what remains below ground level, the site is to be destroyed and removed for landfill, after a mere cursory examination. The Council employed consultants to provide a report which assessed the site as being of only ‘medium’ importance, despite the fact that it is bounded on one side by the remains of Dorchester’s Roman bath-house, and on another by a unique and internationally important Neolithic henge monument. This report contains many factual errors and omissions, and its ‘fitness for purpose’ has been questioned by an internationally renowned and respected archaeologist. By their own admission the consultants’ assessment was ‘refined in order to reduce expenditure and maintain the economic viability of the development scheme’. Hardly the statement one might expect of detached, unbiased professionals! Plainly, the Council are determined to see the project through at any cost. So far this has included several millions of pounds of ratepayers’ money – now it seems as if it will also be at the cost of our town’s heritage, and the future opportunity for generations of residents, visitors, students and historians to enjoy, study and understand a vital part of Dorchester’s history. Thomas Hardy only exaggerated marginally when he asserted that ‘It was impossible to dig more than a foot or two deep about the town fields and gardens without coming upon some tall soldier or other of the Empire, who had lain there in his silent unobtrusive rest for a space of fifteen hundred years.’ Prince Charles has written that ‘If you destroy the past, or consistently deny its relevance to the present, man eventually loses his soul and his roots’. In the early nineteenth century, a group of Dorchester residents, led by the poet William Barnes, managed to avert the demolition of Maumbury Rings by Brunel’s Great Western Railway by forming a pressure group and lobbying against the wanton destruction of our town’s priceless heritage. Now we need to act again, to make sure that when development occurs, that heritage is treated with the respect it deserves, and is properly investigated, recorded and conserved. Please support D.O.R.C.H.’s actions to try to make West Dorset District Council change its mind, and ensure that a full and thorough excavation is carried out. Our future as a unique historic town depends on it.

Caewyd y rheilffyrdd yma yn y 1960au gan ynysu ardaloedd helaeth o Gymru. Mae angen eu ailagor i ailfywiogi'r ardaloedd maent yn rhedeg trwodd. Byddai eu hailagor yn helpu pobl leol i gymudo, yn hwyluso mynediad i wasanaethau iechyd, siopa ayyb, ac yn helpu myfyrwyr i fynychu prifysgolion yng Nghaerfyrddin, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Aberystwyth a Bangor. Fe fyddai’n hwb i dwristiaeth yn yr ardal, ac yn lleihau'r nifer o gerbydau nwyddau trymion (megis pren, cynnyrch archfarchnad ayyb) o’r ffyrdd cul i’r rheilffordd, sy’n fwy diogel a chynaliadwy. These lines were closed in the mid 1960's and have left these areas of Wales very isolated. They need to be reopened to reinvigorate the areas they pass through. The reopening would help local people with commuting, access health services, shopping, improve access to the universities served by the lines in Carmarthen, Lampeter, Aberystwyth and Bangor. New lines will also boost tourism in the area and enable much of the heavy commercial traffic (timber, supermarket goods etc.) to be shifted from narrow roads to rail, which is much safer and more sustainable.

This is across the UK, but our campaign is aimed at Wales. If we group together and help each other, we can have a greater influence, so please support our local campaign and if we can help with yours please do get in touch. Fences are cut and pulled up, gates are left open, animals are let loose, paths and tracks are left impassable, knee high in mud, quagmires, paths rutted and washed away because the surface has been loosened by the heavy and constant abuse of vehicles; A constant stream of vehicles, where once there was peace with only the odd farmer off to check on his livestock, or person walking their dog, or just out with the family. People of all ages are intimidated while trying to stop trespass on their own land, surrounded by circling motor bikes or vulgar shouts from abusive 4 x 4 owners. SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) are also being abused, where is the support from the Countryside Council for Wales to enforce the protection of their Sites? Police are too slow to turn up and provide little support to stop these law breakers. What is the point in passing the trespass law or designate SSSI sites, if there are no Councillors, Countryside Council or Police representatives who will help enforce legislation. This is across the Wales, so if we group together and help each other we can have a greater influence, so please support our local campaign and if we can help with yours please do get in touch. Currently our group is in the Llangollen / Denbighshire / Wrexham area and we desperately need your support to lobby the Local Council , Countryside Council and Police to help us in our campaign . We have a Facebook page, please join / like it and also sign the campaign. https://www.facebook.com/Saveourpathsllangollen

The provision of a bridge or underpass with lifts will improve access to Sudbury Branch line rail services for those with impaired movement, heavy luggage, wheelchairs, bicycles and children. The current lack of lifts mean many people cannot access rail services and are forced to travel by road instead. Installation costs will be offset by increased passenger numbers as a consequence of investment. To download a poster click here: http://bit.ly/1KGG10B ... or for further details read our Press Release here: http://bit.ly/14nVzW4