In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.
Category: landrights & planning
Lead Soldiers
A new front opens up in the war against nature.
The Promised Land
This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out.
Anomie
Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.
Mythologists of the Glen
A report on deer in the Scottish Highlands is a sycophantic paean to Balmorality and landed power.
War with the Wullies
This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.
Making a Mockery of Localism
The government’s claim that local people will have more say over planning is an outright lie.
Terra Nullius
Read the small print and you find that the government wants a total abandonment of the planning system.
Atro-city
As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.
Forest Chumps
The sale of England’s state forests is a chance to do something interesting. It’s being squandered.
In a Hole, Still Digging
Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland?
Home Rule
Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about our housing crisis.
Turning Estates into Villages
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history
Three Million Homes?
Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
Someone Else’s Legacy
Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Marooned in the Suburbs
When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.
Untroubled by Democracy
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
Britain’s Most Selfish People
Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.