Recording local heritage and wildlife is important. If we donโ€™t know what we have now, we canโ€™t know what we are losing.

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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Enabling more children & students to safely travel ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ›ด๐Ÿšถโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฝ to school/college in #Hereford would have a huge impact on reducing peak time ๐Ÿš— congestion on all roads in the City & cheaper than ยฃmillions on new roads. @YourHereford1 @herefordtimes @lexan71 @Farnsworth100
Ministers want 60% of pupils in England โ€˜activelyโ€™ travelling to school by 2035 Exclusive: Transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, says cycling and walking plan focuses on โ€˜everyday travel needsโ€™ theguardian.com/politics/202โ€ฆ
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Over 25 yrs ago these #NHS offices could have been a school club & provided much needed outdoor space for the adjoining primary school. Instead a beautiful building has been left to rot & lie unused for 25 years ๐Ÿ˜”. We need stronger rules around repurposing empty properties
'We do not need any more coffee shops, barbers, tattoo parlours or charity shops' ift.tt/JXnpNIj
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
"National Rail has confirmed that signalling staff being unavailable in the Abergavenny area is causing widespread disruption to journeys through the station." @nationalrailenq @Heidi_Labour how can this happen in 21st century?
BREAKING NEWS ๐Ÿšจ | Major Rail Disruption Between Hereford and Newport as Services Cancelled. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿš† More Details ๐Ÿ‘‰ yourherefordshire.co.uk/all/โ€ฆ #YourHerefordshire
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
A simple way to reduce pressure on A&E departments & the #NHS is to follow the evidence & reduce road speeds in urban/residential areas to 20mph ๐Ÿ‘‡. It also makes people feel safer to be more active ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿ›ด๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฝ as well as reducing car insurance costs for drivers ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ @HfdsCouncil
Wales achieved a 26% reduction in casualties on 20/30mph roads when a default 20 was set. But if you exclude the casualties on roads that didn't change the reduction increases to 37%. See the 1st presentation in our webinar vimeo.com/video20splentyforuโ€ฆ
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Photo books of @CommunityPlann1โ€™s day of action delivered to all four opposition parties โœ… I am on the train home after meetings in Parliament with (in alphabetical order): - Conservatives, Alex Burghart (and also Bernard Jenkin, who is my MP), who Kemi Badenoch sent to collect the photobook; - Green Party, Adrian Ramsay; - LibDems, Gideon Amosโ€ฆwell, his staffer, as Amos was double-booked. But Gideon will take a photo with our book; - Reform, Danny Krueger. I will post the videos/photos later once I have sorted through them all. Everybody LOVED all your photos, and it was a powerful way of petitioning and getting messages across. So, well done with your events on the day of action. We will deal with Labour once we know if there is going to be a Leadership election. We have asked several times for a meeting with Reed/Pennycook.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
If you live & work in #Hereford give this a try & you might be surprised how much better you feel ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿ›ด, how much money you save & if you plan your journey how it can be quicker than driving a short distance at peak time. @herefordtimes @YourHereford1 @HfdCityCouncil @lexan71
It's #GreatBigGreenWeek! ๐Ÿฅณ Swapping your car for active travel just one day a week cuts personal transport emissions by 20%! #TogetherForGood, we can make our neighbourhoods better places to live and protect the natural world we love. Get involved at greatbiggreenweek.com.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Whilst in #Herefordshire @HfdsCouncil have said their policy of 10%BNG will not apply to Phase 1 of the #Hereford Bypass despite it destroying ancient woodland & many venerable trees ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ @CPREHfdshire @HerefordshireWT @Jesse_Norman @forabw @NickyGeeson
๐Ÿ“ฐ The news that Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) loopholes risk England's poorest communities being deprived of trees, green spaces and wildlife picked up a lot of attention last week - and rightly so. People deserve homes surrounded by trees, nature and healthy green spaces and new development should help create greener, healthier places to live. Read the report and find out more ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
How to stop Government harming nature (but still solve the housing crisis): our NEW councillors' toolkit. Please send it to your local councillor and ask them to read it. Councils are starting to push back on unsustainable housing targets, so they will not be alone. communityplanningalliance.orโ€ฆ
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Nature has always had solutions to natural problems. Let nature teach us rather than man destroying & trying to control the consequences of that destruction.
Nice to see something positive. #Mangroves store 5x more CO2 than land-based forests, their tangled roots can also slow down waves & protect coastal communities from storm surges & tsunamis. These provide a perfect nursery for many species of fish and other marine life.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
We all can play a role to tread more lightly on the fabric of our world - avoid products containing palm oil as a start which drives alot of deforestation.
We're losing 10M hectares of forest yearly. That's 27 soccer fields per minute. Air pollution kills 7M people/year. More than COVID at its peak. 1M species face extinction. We're in the 6th mass extinction event. Like, comment and repost let's accelerate climate education.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
๐ŸŒฑ ยฃ61m for another bypass while our ecosystems go underfunded. Let's put green infrastructure ahead of road expansion.
Bypass and associated housing share the same hydrological environment/ groundwater risks/ infiltration but have been assessed in isolation. Lack of integrated hydrological modelling is a critical flaw in a VERY sensitive area! Watch for floods more probs! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w2โ€ฆ
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Replying to @GreenFemsUK
Including 60% of Green MPs. Very disappointing to see so much fearmongering, disrespect for women, misrepresentation of the law, abandoning of feminist analysis and negligence of politicians' safeguarding duties.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Replying to @savelibservices
People need ask questions of the @HfdsCouncil administration on the current failure to deliver the new library & museum. Next cabinet meeting is 25th June & public questions (<140 words) can be submitted 7 days. Agenda should be published here councillors.herefordshire.goโ€ฆ

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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
This is cobblers. The water shortage was a result of SE Water not being able to treat water fast enough to meet increased demand. A failure of capacity and infrastructure.
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Record-breaking heat and dry spring leave parts of England without water reut.rs/4u49ifq reut.rs/4u49ifq
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Ah, the favoured trope of developers - 'it's all industrially farmed, so concrete would be better'! How about lobbying for sustainable farming?
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Replying to @FT
Bonkers is an understatement. Heartless is another (for the inhabitants of the area who will be at the receiving end of compulsory purchase orders, and for the nature that's made homeless). Dangerous is another word (for the 45,000 acres of best and most versatile land taken out of production as food shortages loom). And unnecessary.
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Several interesting things about this article. Firstly, these are not deserted fields. They are best and most versatile arable land. 45,000 acres of them. They produce FOOD. And given the many food security klaxons sounding currently, we need food producing land and we should not cover it in concrete. 1/ ft.com/content/e50ffbb3-45e7โ€ฆ
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
Replying to @CPRE
@CPRE blog by our Director Andrew McRobb: ๐Ÿ’ง 50,000 samples taken ๐Ÿ“ˆ Biggest river dataset in England ๐Ÿ” ~72โ€“73% of Wye phosphate is agricultural Read: cpre.org.uk/opinions/how-volโ€ฆ #RiverWye #SaveTheWye
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Nicky Geeson ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿงญ retweeted
An ecologist says it will take decades for a Herefordshire river to recover from damage by a local farmer. John Price was jailed for illegally removing tonnes of gravel from the riverbed to build a road and horse yard at his home and tearing out 71 trees. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m2โ€ฆ
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