Tony Burton

The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026: vote now! Please take the time to get acquainted with your The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026 nominees and vote now - each one counts!

I've been nominated for the Great Outdoors Awards campaigner of the year for my work on #SlowWays. The award is for "campaigns or campaigners who who stand up, speak out and act on the issues that matter to walkers". I'd love your support. Please vote > www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/the-gre...

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Does anyone seriously believe this nonsense and has anyone forgotten the unequivocal evidence that previous "first time buyer" subsidies went straight into housebuilders profits

Green background with a yellow speech bubble which features a quote from James Alcock, Chief Executive of Plunkett UK Quote says: "“We urge ministers to recognise and back this proven model, and to work with Plunkett to ensure their initiatives are reaching rural areas, where there is a track record for long-term sustainability.” Quote bubble is pointing at a picture of James

🗣️Advocating for change 

Plunkett’s annual repor tshows that community businesses are doing exactly what government says it wants to achieve – driving inclusive growth, boosting pride in place, and empowering local decision-making.

➡️ https://plunkett.co.uk/better-business-report-2025/

Could there soon be a new UK National Park? 🌄

Check out our 101 explainer video about the proposed Glyndŵr National Park 👇

Consultation open until Mon 8th Dec

#newnationalpark

Today’s government announcement on the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act marks a pivotal moment in private rented sector reform.    The positive news is that the long-awaited end to Section… |... Today’s government announcement on the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act marks a pivotal moment in private rented sector reform.    The positive news is that the long-awaited end to Section 21...

Today’s government announcement on the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act marks a pivotal moment in private rented sector reform.

The three stages are due to start with Stage 1 next May. Take a look at our reflections and thoughts on the timeline here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Community Business Week - Power to Change This Community Business Week, we're celebrating community businesses in all their forms by shining a light on the difference they're making across ...

Check out Community Business Week from @powertochange.org.uk

29 November - 5 December

www.powertochange.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

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Each year, we ask campaigners and changemakers—paid and grassroots alike—to complete the #SMKCampaignerSurvey

The questions cover the current environment, your experience in 2025, changing campaigning tactics, and thoughts on the year ahead.

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- Green spaces (+ve) and lack affordable homes (-ve) mark out extremes of what influences community pride in place

- People seem happiest in places where they rely on local government least

Just two of many findings in Commonplace's report on place perceptions

www.commonplace.is/hubfs/UK%20P...

Chancellors Scene Setter speech ahead of Budget 2025 Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her scene setter speech on Tuesday 4 November 2025.

"Ripping up the planning rules so we can build housing and infrastructure across the country"

No signs that Rachel Reeves' delusional views on planning are changing - such lazy politics

www.gov.uk/government/s...

To read more about our new Chair and Treasurer, visit https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/who-s-moving-mermaids-smk-joseph-rowntree-and-more.html

Proposed revocation of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down Development Consent Order 2023 The Secretary of State for Transport proposes to make an order to revoke the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down Development Consent Order 2023.

Hurrah - Government move to revoke damaging short cut & cover tunnel at Stonehenge vindicates all those who have stood by this exceptional landscape & puts @nationaltrust.org.uk, Historic England & English Heritage on notice to work for a lasting solution

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Some reasons why the answer to housing the nation is not a Crews Hill "New Town" in London's Green Belt - find out more at @cprelondon.bsky.social's online event

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www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/a-letter-to-london/

🎉 Tonight, @kindredlcr.bsky.social celebrates 5 years — a milestone for a bold, community-rooted approach to economic change in Liverpool City Region.

We've been proud to support Kindred from the start, helping to shape a model that puts social businesses at the heart of local economic development.

Our new film argues that community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.

🎥 Watch and share.

Read the story behind the film: www.right-here.org/community-po...

Film by @tuz0.bsky.social

The Renters’ Rights Act is NOW LAW!

Soon S21 evictions, which have forced millions of people out of their homes for no reason & with just 2 months notice, will be a thing of the past.

This is what our movement can achieve when we stand together.

Power to Change appoints four new Trustees - Power to Change Power to Change welcomes four new Trustees to the Board. The new appointments bring experience in strategic communications, advocacy and policy, health and ...

🤝 Welcoming new trustees Lara Carmona, Dr Neil Bentley Gockmann, Paul Jenkins, and Solomon Elliott to Power to Change. We look forward to collectively, continuing to back community business from the ground up, building more resilient and liveable communities for everyone: buff.ly/1Rysnoj 👇

A clumsy patching up of a broken system: Khan and Reed cut London's affordable housing targets PLUS: leaked audio reveals a Clarion manager encouraging colleagues to produce fake evidence of displaying fire safety notices

I've tried to argue why I think the cut to affordable housing targets in London is a really terrible idea in a considered, rather than shouty, way here.

A clumsy patching up of a broken status quo:

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New measures announced to ramp up housebuilding in London New emergency measures announced today to tackle the housebuilding crisis in London and unlock tens of thousands of homes across the capital.

More kick-in-the-teeth than "shot-in-the-arm" for all those wanting decent quality homes that everyone can afford in London - it shouldn't need to be said that in an ever heating city having more than one window in your home should be a basic right

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Just as @mayoroflondon.bsky.social is about to weaken London Plan safeguards against single aspect flats and degrade the already shocking quality of new homes being built in London by volume housebuilders

Airport expansion could put net zero in “serious jeopardy” without further safeguards - Committees - UK Parliament The government’s current approach to mitigating the climate impacts of aviation while proceeding with airport expansion could put net zero delivery in “serious jeopardy”, a committee...

Environmental Audit Committee report on airport expansion - stops short of really putting the boot in but pretty critical of the gaps in Government policy to manage its impact on climate change
committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...

Soon to be a big and very positive moment for renters and landlords.

An admission by private sector volume house builders that we should not be delivering the social and affordable homes so badly needed via a system that depends on private sector volume house builders

An admission by private sector volume house builders that we should not be delivering the social and affordable homes so badly needed via a system that depends on private sector volume house builders

YouTube video by CPRE London Inequality in Access to Green Space in London

A recording of our webinar exploring inequalities in access to #GreenSpace in #London is now available to watch below:
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⭐ The public trusts community organisations most to deliver positive change locally. But they think government trusts itself most. That mismatch matters.

Returning power to the people: What community empowerment can do for the public and for politics - Power to Change At a time when the government faces enormous pressure to mount a response to the sense of discontent and decline that the public is feeling, giving communit ...

Welcome news! The government is investing “Pride in Place” funding in 330+ deprived communities. Our research published today shows why this matters.

Read the full report on why community power is essential to tackling discontent, restoring trust, and driving national renewal buff.ly/MIQNu9O

Evidence shows #neighbourhoodplanning delivering more not less development than Local Plans as well as protecting the things that matter to local communities but not recognised by local authority planners