Tag: sustainability

  • Year One

    Year One

    Last week, we celebrated the first year of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership (DCAP) with a social at the Victoria Inn. More folk turned up for the social in the pub than regularly do for the monthly meet-ups in Burnham Council Chamber. An unsurprising but salutary reminder that an open formal meeting is not for…

  • If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail

    It’s now 6 years & 7 months since the Maldon Local Development Plan 2014-2029 [pdf] was approved (21 July 2017) and 6 years & 5 months since the Burnham Neighbourhood Plan 2014-2020 [pdf] was made part of the Maldon LDP by Maldon District Council (8 September 2017).

The period both these plans cover ends in 2029…

  • Realecologik

    Realecologik

    I was chatting the other day (informally) with someone involved with NetZero planning for the UK Government. I was spitballing my usual ideas, which were all getting shot down as politically infeasible: “No one will vote for that”. It felt to me like the sets of actions which were considered ‘politically possible’ and those that…