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Today we've been busy mailing the latest edition of The Geographer to RSGS Members! This issue explores the importance of community, with a special focus on local community empowerment and engagement.
Check out our previous editions: issuu.com/rsgspubs
#community #geography
Planning Democracy retweeted
A grand day out for the annual @PlanDemoc barbecue in the grounds @WistonLodge. The sun came out and the rain stayed off (mostly!). What a lovely bunch of people - and a great organisation!
ALT A group of people sitting around a table outside with food & drink.
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This is a serious worry about biodiversity net gain.
Along with the ‘pocket’ habitats that supposedly make up for open spaces. And the ‘human interaction factor’ (cats, dogs, noise, light, air pollution, dislike of ‘messy weeds’ etc).
And lack of enforcement
List goes on…
As I travel a lot with my work, I see a lot of new build housing estates. Rarely do I see new tree planting schemes that survive past the first year. The country seems to be littered with skeletons of newly planted trees.
As a landscaper, it frustrates me that in this industry, there’s a complacency around the establishment of newly planted trees/shrubs/hedging and their management in the first 2 years. It’s a waste of resources and in my opinion, money would be better spent on planting younger and native specimens, which haven’t spent years in a fertile container of compost, only to be put into (more often than not) heavy clay soils or builders rubble and be expected to flourish.
Out of these 10 specimens at the end of my road, only 3 still have some leaves on (the rest have died) are in decline and will probably not survive past next year.
The industry needs a reform to ensure that the efforts made to plant new trees isn’t a waste of time/resources.
Planning Democracy retweeted
But Scotland has an opportunity to lead the world by defining the right in a comprehensive way, with both substantive and procedural elements.
Planning Democracy retweeted
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Planning Democracy retweeted
The hysteria and the sense of entitlement from people like Louise Dickens and the rentier class she represents is astonishing, but it tells a wider story of Impossible Scotland, a country where nothing can happen ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/0…
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The most expensive dish in the UK ? Cost - 101 illegally killed Hen Harriers since 2018 , plus 10K’s eagles , kites buzzards , 100K’s foxes , stoats , corvids all killed , vast swathes of ecologically derelict uplands , tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere and its full of lead .
Planning Democracy retweeted
Scottish Government plan to ban snares in Scotland
We wholeheartedly back a ban on this cruel & indiscriminate method of trapping & killing Scotland’s wildlife
But no animal should be killed in any way so more animals can be killed for ‘entertainment’
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/polit…
Planning Democracy retweeted
🐟 The @ScotGovMarine consultation on seasonal closure of part of the Firth of Clyde to fishing in order to protect spawning cod is now open.
Share your views before 22 September 2023: consult.gov.scot/marine-scot…
Planning Democracy retweeted
With 1% of Scotland's ancient woodlands left the need to save these complex and irreplaceable ecosystems is high. 🌲
Read about Help Trees Help Us' campaign to save Scotland's ancient and native woodlands and read our guide to Tree Preservation Orders.
ercs.scot/news/tree-protecti…
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⁉️ Ever wondered what a scallop dredge actually looks like? We take a closer look at what a scallop dredge is & how it impacts fragile seabed habitats:
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⚖️ We're taking the Scottish Government to court over its licensing of scallop dredging. But what exactly is scallop dredging? And why do we think the marine environment should be considered in licensing decisions?
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Planning Democracy retweeted
If your friends can't afford to buy a house then how will building more houses they can't afford help? A lot needs to change (inc more social housing & policies that help lower income buyers) but building 000s of market priced houses for a handful with 20% off is not the answer
‘Too many of my friends can never afford to buy a house because older generations are against building new homes!’
@Lewis_Goodall is outraged by caller Chris’s opposition to developing on the green belt, deeming it ‘selfish’.
Planning Democracy retweeted
The arguably ugly fence going up beside the #ScottishWater waster water treatment facility (& new shed) near the River #Spey @boatofgarten appears to be back to front (& unless modifications are to be added may end up an extra barrier for movements of some #wildlife).
Planning Democracy retweeted
🚨 NEW BRIEFING | The clear and urgent case for a Scottish Environment Court.
Read more:👇🏿
ercs.scot/our-work/new-brief…
ALT Cromarty firth oil rigs. Credit: Joiseyshowaa
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With no Hearing, we're doing all we can to make our voices heard. @scotgov Reporter - please listen to the community and reject these plans
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Thank you so much @julebandel for all the hard work you have put into this! We have been denied a hearing but we request the @scotgov Reporter to please listen to our voices and reject these plans
Still angry about the developer circumventing local democracy, but I submitted another objection to the proposed PBSA at Eyre Place last week. 📝
In it, I challenge claims made by the developer and council report & urged the Reporter to listen to residents and visit the site.
ALT Artists’ rendition of what the proposed student accommodation could look like, showing a block of modern flats higher than the current tenement buildings.
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.@PlanDemoc , @RSPBScotland, @FoEScot and @ERCScotclaimed Scotland was in breach of the Aarhus Convention – an international law – because of the lack of planning appeal rights for members of the public, even if it impacts their health or environment.
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We have had 50 responses already, which is both impressive and depressing...
We'll be handing these preliminary results to Channel 4 first thing tomorrow, for some coverage they are doing of hedges at risk, so if you want your data to contribute, fill the survey in now!!
**WAR ON HEDGES & TREES!!**
Twitter has been awash with horrific stories of tree & hedge destruction lately.
We (@communityplann1) want to understand the scale of the problem.
Please take a minute to fill in our survey:
forms.gle/N86tZjGkcgtFWjXz6
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Welcome to Scotland. This beach is on Skye & this is the reality of many of our beaches. A huge group of folk have worked incredibly hard over the last few days, to try & remove as much plastic pollution from Skye's beaches as possible. The issue is huge, shocking & heartbreaking – at Scotland, United Kingdom
