@fitheach there’s a lot more practical local control in the national park than there is the average Council. Otherwise there would be no point in having them.
What is critical is to get in right at the beginning and ensure that the national park board has a majority of local members .
@fitheach well I experienced one of the Italian national parks as a visitor, and I was so impressed with the way it was operated that I made the effort to read their constitution and rules.
The enabling legislation is just that – enabling. The actual set up of the national park is up for grabs, and it is up to local people to grab it.
The Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow, with a rather large reminder that the area used to be one of the city's largest docks before the SEC was built.
@thisismyglasgow I am sure they thought it was very clever to mutate from the SECC (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre) to the SEC and call themselves the Scottish Event Campus but for those of us not in regular contact with these organisations it is merely confusing.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old name.
vandalism and graffiti can bring down house prices across a whole neighbourhood. please consider doing your part in tackling the housing crisis. together we can fix it
@josh the reason it affects house prices is because people don’t want to live with vandalism and graffiti. Smashing windows and running street battles would lower house prices as well, but they are not seen as good neighbourly activities.
We should be fighting to solve the problem at root, not shitting on our own doorsteps
Evolve e-bikes submitted a Freedom of Information request to every police force in the UK and found that there were 103% more eBike thefts in 2023 compared to 2022 – and an incredible 257% more than in 2021.
“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.
The Conservatives are prepared to go to any length, to stifle dissent and overturn long established principles in English law.
The judge accused the government’s solicitor general of “significantly mischaracterising” the evidence, when his lawyers alleged Warner behaved in an intimidating manner, confronting potential jurors outside the court.
@kim_harding it was obvious from the start that in order for Gibraltar to retain its free movement with Spain anybody arriving from the UK would have to enter the Shengen area to get access to Gibraltar. Were it not for the Good Friday agreement the same would apply to Ireland