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paulstevens24
- 3 days ago
- 5 min
Watch this space!
The Green Belt is an area of land surrounding urban areas in the UK that is protected from development in order to preserve the...
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paulstevens24
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Brownfield not Greenfield, please!
In a recent edition of the Daily Express was an article headlined “Rural villages 'under assault' by greenfield property development”. In...
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Pat Phillipps
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
"Trying to make housing sound popular"
Reading University’s ‘Garden Village’ Pat Phillipps The University of Reading wants to sell off the fields between Shinfield, Arborfield,...
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paulstevens24
- Nov 12, 2022
- 4 min
Bob de Builder wins Greenwashing Award!
No disrespect to the hard work of many at the University of Reading (UoR) in their highly commendable efforts to reduce the carbon...
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paulstevens24
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
How Woke is Wokingham?
Suella Braverman is much in the news, although Matt Hancock seems to be doing his best to knock her off the front pages! Matt is free to...
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paulstevens24
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
So what's the point of a Neighbourhood Plan?
Interesting to see that houses in Shinfield are imposed on the community by WBC while houses in Hurst are rejected. After the furore over...
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paulstevens24
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
The builders that could “SOLVE” Hall Farm
You probably already know that SOLVE Hall Farm stands for Save Our Loddon Valley Environment at Hall Farm, and I suspect you are also...
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paulstevens24
- Oct 4, 2022
- 3 min
Back to the Future?
Just to be clear, it's not just the "lefty liberal press" reporting concerns about the Governments proposed reforms to the planning...
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paulstevens24
- Oct 2, 2022
- 3 min
In adversity grows strength!
I am writing this Blog on the day the Conservatives open their party conference in Birmingham. Earlier this morning I was reading my...
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paulstevens24
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
Please sign our petition!
THE PETITION: “I urge Wokingham Borough Council not to include any significant housing development at Hall Farm as part of its Local Plan...
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paulstevens24
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
What price a game of footie?
Hot on the heels of the Open Letter from SOLVE Hall Farm to Helen Gordon, President of the Council of the University of Reading comes...
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colwatts145
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
University of Reading - Reputation at Risk
The following open letter was sent to Helen Gordon, the President of The Council of The University of Reading on 16 September 2022. ...
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paulstevens24
- Sep 26, 2022
- 6 min
Is the tail wagging the dog?
Let’s start with a recent article published in Wokingham Today: https://wokingham.today/five-year-land-supply-council-vows-to-keep-fighti...
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paulstevens24
- Aug 15, 2022
- 5 min
Hall Farm: Nature generator or cash cow?
"Summers marked by more extreme heat, droughts and wildfires are the new reality in Britain as the climate crisis grips the planet,...
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paulstevens24
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
Drought, what drought?
First, compare the colour of the grass in the foreground (un-watered) with the colour of the grass in the background (very well watered)....
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paulstevens24
- Jul 26, 2022
- 4 min
Agroecology matters!
At the recent meeting between SOLVE Hall Farm and the University of Reading I was slightly surprised to learn that of all our ideas for...
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paulstevens24
- Jul 14, 2022
- 6 min
A walk on the wild side.
The 7th July 2022, will no doubt be remembered more for Boris Johnson resigning as our Prime Minister than for anything else, but it was...
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paulstevens24
- Jun 24, 2022
- 5 min
Do you know your swales from your culverts?
A lot has been going on “behind the scenes” with the University of Reading (owners of the largest part of the land along the Loddon...
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paulstevens24
- Jun 12, 2022
- 4 min
ASB, ASC and the APM
So let's start with an image to give some meaning to the first of those acronyms. ASB stands for Anti Social Behaviour. The picture above...
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paulstevens24
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
When is Green Belt not Green Belt?
It was a brief moment of celebration (for me at least) when the Conservatives lost their overall majority in Wokingham at the recent...
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