Briefing and Infographic downloads Anthony Rae 19th March 2023 On 23rd January 2023 the inspector’s report with its findings about the acceptability of the Calderdale draft local plan covering the period 2018-33 was finally published, 3½ years after the Examination
Calderdale’s proposed Local Plan: Is it sustainable?
Anthony Rae for FOE 4th August 2017: Every council has to prepare a ‘Local Plan’ – a critical document which will determine what happens where into the future, what gets built and what gets protected – and Calderdale has today
Calder Valley under water: Sacrificed to indifference and political ideology
Anthony Rae for FOE 27th December 2015: On 12th December Hebden Bridge was ‘inches away from flooding disaster’, says the article I wrote then. Of course the ‘flood next time’ was always likely to happen – and so it came
News: Hebden Bridge inches away from flooding disaster – 12th Dec
Anthony Rae for FOE 13th December 2015: My main occupation yesterday was following the news from the Paris climate change talks, as they proceeded towards a successful conclusion. Calderdale FOE organised an event on 5th December in the middle of
Paris Climate Talks!: event at Halifax Minster 5th December 10-2pm
19th November 2015 Calderdale Friends of the Earth is hosting this event in the middle of the critical global climate change negotiations being held in Paris 30th November-11th December, to help you understand what exactly is going on. Will there be
Take action against air pollution part 2: this time in West Yorkshire
Anthony Rae for FOE 3rd December 2015 Our previous article – Take action against air pollution now – here and nationally! 1st November – dealt with the consultation about the government’s proposed air quality strategy. And now there’s a second
Local Plan: concerns about threat to Calderdale’s Greenbelt ignites!
Anthony Rae for FOE 29th November 2015 Assisted by strong coverage from the Halifax Courier and its district newspapers – the Courier frontpage headline of 20th November was 12,000 homes. But at what cost? supported by an in-depth doublepage spread
Local Plan: Threat to Greenbelt will transform Calderdale as we know it
Anthony Rae for FOE 19th November 2015: For years – as Calderdale’s Local Plan has progressed through its extended development – Calderdale FOE has been warning about the ‘threat to our Greenbelt’. Now, with the publication of a consultation draft
Take action against air pollution now – here and nationally!
Anthony Rae for FOE 1st November 2015: Are you concerned about air pollution – where you live or work? Have you noticed over the years that nothing’s been done about it, and ever wondered why? Did you know that around
How the Calderdale & Kirklees candidates pledged before the election, and what happens next?
Anthony Rae for FOE 11th May 2015: Before last Thursday’s general election campaigners from Calderdale and Kirklees local FOE groups approached all the candidates standing in 5 parliamentary constituencies and asked them whether they would support the three pledges already