A good solid petition for signing

[BAJR]

On teh 38 degrees website - over 85,000 sigs already - this is no small thing.



Up to you if you want to sign - but do consider it!
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/save-our-countryside

Petition text:
?Save our countryside - don't ruin it with a building free-for-all?

• Don?t rush dangerous changes through - stop and rethink the plans
  
• Don?t let construction lobbyists call the shots
  
• Protect the delicate balance between economic, social and environmental needs
  
• Tackle the big causes of house shortages, like credit availability and cuts to affordable housing
  

[Unitof1]

theres no such place as the countryside
ps nature is dead

[BAJR]

Thanks for that useful contribution... reminds me of a quote from Hitch-hikers guide to the Universe...

"Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing."

take care on the roads there Unit.

Don't sign then. and be happy.

[Jack]

theres no such place as the countryside
ps nature is dead

we are part of nature.........oops, we're dead too!

[P Prentice]

theres no such place as the countryside
ps nature is dead

back on form unit - could have been a thread starter worth discussing

[BAJR]

Could still be !

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

theres no such place as the countryside
ps nature is dead

Technically, he's right-there is no such place...

Nature's dead? does Nature know this?

ps Just signed it-Have You? (that is, anyone reading who isn't dead like Nature)

[Wax]

Signed and forwarded details to all and sundry:face-approve:. Make no mistake this Government is not interested in heritage be it countryside or town there are more cuts to heritage services on the way, we ain't seen nothing yet.

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Signed and forwarded details to all and sundry:face-approve:. Make no mistake this Government is not interested in heritage be it countryside or town there are more cuts to heritage services on the way, we ain't seen nothing yet.

Although I've signed this as well, I wonder just how shackled/constrained the Governments hands are-it is easy to forget that they have the concerns of the whole Country to consider-and beyond that our commitments to the wider world. Because this recession has global reach, we are not the only one's in difficulties. It must be very hard to accept (for the Guv') knowing your choices are so dependent on what happened under the previous administration and is happening in the wider world that it would be easy to think you have no choice at all in your decisions; for those who watched Babylon 5, when Londo Mollari became the Centauran Emperor he said to Vir "when I was just ambassador, I had all the choices in the world-but no power whatsoever, now I am Emperor, I have all the power I could ever wish for-but no choices at all".

"We ain't seen nothing yet" I think this is more true than most of us realize.

[Wax]

Yes it is a world recession
Yes we are all in it up to our necks
But deregulation of the planning system is p...ing in the ocean. The only reason I can see that this government is going down that route is lobbying from the construction industry who like the rest of us are in serious s... .The only effect it will have is to allow the sort of trashing of our heritage that occurred at the start of the C 20th. I really believe we are ruled by a bunch of public school boys who have not got a clue how the real world works. The worst possible government in the present global climate. Gods help us all !!!!!!!!!!!