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10 years after the Forestry Commission wasn’t sold off, the bad old FC has returned
Cast your minds back, dear reader, Ten Years. I have deliberately capitalised these words so please don’t send me any grammatical correction comments. Ten years seems like an incomprehensibly long time ago, considering what we have been through in the … Continue reading
Save our Woods prevents FC sell-off (again). Now We need to save other valuable public land
Last Child in the Public Forest? (c) Miles King Save our Woods has done it again, with the help of 38 degrees. Yesterday evening, in the Lords, the Government agreed to reconsider whether the Public Forest Estate should be exempt … Continue reading
From Prosperity to Action in 25 years
In 1989 Margaret Thatcher’s Government published Roads for Prosperity. This White Paper set out plans for “The largest road building programme since the Romans” with plans for a 12 lane M25, an outer M25 from Harwich to the M4 near … Continue reading
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Tagged Department for Transport, Government, Highways Agency, Margaret Thatcher, Patrick McLoughlin, privatisation, public land, Reclaim The Streets, Road, Twyford Down
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