Tag: environment
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Stitching the Path: Connecting Disjointed Walk & Cycle Routes 2
The rECOnnect Dengie project picked up the baton of the proposal to create a safe cycle route between Burnham-on-Crouch and Southminster. Our preferred route uses the alignment of the continuous walking route formed by the footpaths FP 26 242 and FP 17 259. We’ve managed to get this into the county strategy. The Essex LCWIP…
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Energy Sovereignty
Why aren’t Reform UK pursuing the energy sovereignty that electrification, heat pumps and renewable generation can offer the UK? Why fuck all that up to pursue the dwindling fossil fuels left in the North Sea if you aren’t going to nationalise the little of what’s left there and prioritise using it for the national transition?…
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Rural Futuring
‘I want to believe in it. I want to go on believing in it. ButI cannot quite yet. Because we haven’t yet arrived. We are still undeniably at the bridge. The liminal chaos clings to our garments and clouds our vision. We must move. We must create this future. We must create it before we…
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Way to Go
[This article develops a recent Facebook post with more maps and discussion of cycle route potentials] I received communication this week that ‘the King Charles III England Coast Path (KC3ECP), and its associated accessible coastal margin is now open around the full Dengie peninsula.’ There were some caveats in the communication, which I copy below…
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Hostile Environment
It’s a Quintuple! The Gods have spoken. Communities Secretary Steve Reed came down from Mount Westminster this weekend and proclaimed that 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five local authorities. I was surprised that UK Gov had not gone with the three unitary authority model proposed by Essex County Council, which…
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Push Biking
The recent and successive cycle strategy documents from Essex and Maldon have failed to suggest what cycle routes on the Dengie could look like – so, I’ve had a go… [I should start by stating that the ideal situation would be a Dutch style network, including completely new cycleways taking the most direct line between…
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The Lost Words
By national government edict the 15 councils in ‘Greater Essex’ must reorganise to form new unitary authorities through a process of Local Government Reorganisation. This will change the current two-level council system into one in which there are new, bigger councils called unitary councils. I’ve been reviewing the four competing proposals submitted by existing councils…
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Let a Thousand Knepps Bloom
Yesterday, Maldon District Council (MDC) shared on social media that they would be working in partnership with a property consultancy company that has launched a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme with the Braxted Park estate. The post and linked article are light on detail, and there’s nothing about it on the MDC website, but this…
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Dengie Marshes Wind Farm
The proposed Dengie Marshes Wind Farm is moving forward into a phase of public survey and persuasion. (A company called Dengie Marshes Wind Farm Limited was incorporated on 18 October 2024 and shares directors with Blenheim Renewables, the company which initiated the project.) The project has a website and is holding a series of consultation…
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Planetary
The post discusses the evolving relationship between global ecological crises and local actions, emphasizing bioregionalism’s focus on sustainable living within local environments. It critiques contemporary political responses to climate change, highlighting tensions between capitalist interests and emerging leftist alternatives. The text questions the effectiveness of local actions detached from broader, non-capitalist movements focused on global…
Dengie Bioregion 