Category: landrights & planning

Lords of Misrule

The destruction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill by the “new” House of Lords shows that it’s just as bad as the old one

The 17th Century campaigner Gerrard Winstanley is a hero for the 21st Century

Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions

People are being ruined for opposing development

Travelling people are being hounded out of existence

By buying second homes all over Britain, the rich are preying on the lives of the poor

It’s the only way to bridge Britain’s disastrous divisions

The Urban Task Force will keep the poor where they belong

We get the right to roam, but a predatory landlord has been chosen to enforce it

Where is the right to roam the government pledged?

50 per cent of all the new homes in central and inner London are being sold to speculators in the Far East

We need stiff sanctions against second home ownership

Why are we waiting for an official right to roam, when we can start walking now?

The Government’s transport policies are being destroyed by its housebuilding plans

New housing plans are shutting the poor out of the South-East of England

The Government’s plans for coping with greenfield housing demand are misconceived

The new Regional Development Agencies have no democratic legitimacy

Hong Kong’s financial difficulties are partly due to land speculation. Britain has the same unhealthy patterns

It’s a monumental folly

Charging for access to our national monuments reduces the poor to trespassers in their own nation