"Special economic zones" - shorthand for areas where democratic governance is scrapped and which are run on behalf of multinational companies (including, now, Russian ones).
In the UK they're likely to be those promoting #CarDependentSprawl & #HGVDependentSprawl.
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But it's clear the "blockers" to a sustainable future include those in government blocking environmental approaches to development.
Keir Starmer needs a basic rethink of his economic and planning policies. The 1980s #CarDependentSprawl policies he is pursuing will achieve nothing but destruction.
Meanwhile, here in the UK, the well-funded #YimbyLobby PR operation, listened to by central government, is advocating a big acceleration of #SoilSealing by #CarDependentSprawl which reduces groundwater recharge.
What's morally reprehensible is pursuing destruction of the planning system for #CarDependentSprawl, destroying land vital for #FoodSecurity, #WaterSecurity, drainage, flood-control, biodiversity + increasing greenhouse gas emissions into the bargain.
Poverty needs #SocialRent homes, not sprawl.
Amazing they're not feeling bumps from the totally unsustainable development pattern they're driving - #CarDependentSprawl. The attack on nature has rightly had the most attention, but the planning reforms are causing other environmental disasters too.
Today's reminder that #TruckDependentSprawl can be as destructive and pointless as #CarDependentSprawl.
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But the Treasury is pushing #CarDependentSprawl which is joined-up policy, but not as we know it.
Joined-up in the sense it will promote both unsustainable transport AND unsustainable land use patterns.
It does little for housing but makes a few developers richer = "growth" in Treasury-speak.
Let's hope the Government takes more notice of respondents who disagree than in recent planning consultations.
Perhaps, to get ahead of this curve, the green sector needs to start preparing its own sustainable land-use framework.
Otherwise it's likely to be another excuse for #CarDependentSprawl.
It's the same story with the Government's addiction to #CarDependentSprawl. They've sucked up every lie the #YimbyLobby has told them for the past 5 years and are now demolishing the planning system piece by piece to appease housing developers.
Today's reminder for all those involved in promoting #CarDependentSprawl
You don't put ends to years of stagnation by reviving long discredited ideas like airport expansion, the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, green belt development or smashing up planning to increase the destructive rate of #CarDependentSprawl.
You do it by new thinking.
The Chancellor has just confirmed that the new Planning Bill will make it easier to build #CarDependentSprawl near rural railway stations. 1/
Sudden, unexpected incapacity to drive is one of the big drawbacks of #CarDependentSprawl.
What a shame then that the #CarDependentSprawl inherent in the new planning regime is inimical to nature and most unlikely to make much, if any, difference to house building numbers.
So typical - today's assault on planning to accelerate #CarDependentSprawl launched with the petrol-powered motoring metaphor - "turbocharge".
So, at a time we need a much stronger #planning system to adapt to, and mitigate, climate-change, we're supposed to be smashing up planning to secure more #CarDependentSprawl.
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Quite a substantial weakness though: "building roads, grid connections, laboratories, trainlines, warehouses, windfarms, power stations," - Keir Starmer, 5 December.
A positively 1960s vision of #CarDependentSprawl and #TruckDependentSprawl.
Good to see the intention to give more resources to left-behind areas, but please Angela Rayner, reconsider your planning reforms whose #CarDependentSprawl and new towns would move resources from left-behind areas to prosperous areas.
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Today's reminder that the country's drainage and flood control systems are no longer fit for purpose in the face of climate change.
But instead of major investment, the Government is pursuing #CarDependentSprawl which will make things worse.
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Several organisations have been shouting themselves hoarse for years about #CarDependentSprawl, but government policy does more and more to encourage it. We need #TransitOrientedDevelopment, medium densities, #BrownfieldFirst etc..
@transportfornewhomes.org.uk, CPRE, CBT, etc..
There's an urgent need to build the right homes in the right places, but an equally urgent need not to build the #CarDependentSprawl implicit in current plans.
We need to co-ordinate the #EcosystemServices that land provides across the spectrum.
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The Government risks locking in car-dependency if it continues to promote new housing in rural or peripheral areas. NEF's new report on #CarDependentSprawl constructs a Car Dependency Index and demands a fresh think from government.
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Behind the paywall, but the planning reforms the Government needs to make exclude most of those proposed in July. What we need is planning that recognises the ecosystem services land provides & growing climate threats. That'll mean dropping #CarDependentSprawl etc. & boosting #FoodSecurity.
But just think of all those golf courses which could have #CarDependentSprawl built on them...
Developers have been salivating over the potential commercial returns from building low-density #CarDependentSprawl in the metropolitan green belt for years.
Given government support for airport expansion, road building, warehouses, #CarDependentSprawl and #TruckDependentSprawl, there's an issue about where the other 6% sit.
