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🇬🇧 Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back. Join the Campaign ⤵️
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🚨 NEW 🚨 1 in 5 councils that have declared a climate emergency have blocked enough clean energy projects to power a whopping 4.4m homes
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Britain Remade research has found the planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing runs to almost 360,000 pages.
If laid end to end, the planning application would stretch 66 miles- 5 times longer than the road itself
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Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency in 2019. In 2023 they refused permission for a solar farm that could power 30,000 homes with clean renewable energy.
Councillors also unanimously rejected plans for a hotel in Newquay to install 450 solar panels.
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We are today launching Britain Remade, a new campaign for economic growth.
We need to get Britain Building again
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Medway Council declared a climate emergency in April 2019.
In 2022, the council rejected its OWN request for planning permission to put solar panels on its Grade II-listed 1970s concrete and brick HQ
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Our polling shows only 11% of the public oppose onshore wind developments that have local consent.
With energy bills soaring, removing the ban on onshore wind is common-sense- and good politics.
NEW: Former cabinet minister Simon Clarke has tabled an amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill to overturn the ban on new onshore wind
Tells me: "If we're going to have some anti-growth amendments on the bill we might as well have some pro-growth ones too"
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🍃 Wind generated 26.8% of all GB electricity in 2022. This is good news- it's cheaper and cleaner than imported gas.
Yet England still has a ban on new onshore wind being built
We need to lift the ban and get building
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350 councils across the country have declared a climate emergency.
But our analysis shows that 70 of them have stood in the way of planning applications that could produce over 4.4 gigawatts of clean energy
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Not only is the Lower Thames Crossing’s planning application long, but it’s also expensive.
The Government has spent £267 million on the application so far. That’s more than Norway spent actually *building* the longest road tunnel in the world
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🚨 Drop the ban on onshore wind 🚨
We're launching a campaign calling on the Government to lift it's effective ban on new onshore wind turbines 🍃
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Sir Keir Starmer is right.
Turning the economy around can only be achieved by overhauling our outdated planning system.
It currently takes up to 13 years to build an offshore wind farm...
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The Lower Thames Crossing’s 359,000 page planning application is symbolic of everything wrong with our planning system: it's far too hard to build in Britain
Delays and endless bureaucracy mean we can’t build the homes, transport links or clean energy projects the country needs
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So this Christmas we’ve put 12 councils on our naughty list for blocking new wind and solar farms, battery storage facilities and EV charging schemes.
First up is Medway Council 👇
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A single wind farm in England had more pages of environmental assessments than Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and the complete works of Tolstoy combined...
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In 2014, David Cameron announced plans to dual the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham in Northumbria.
9 years later, and the Government still hasn’t granted the project planning permission.
This is a story of how it’s too hard to build infrastructure in Britain...
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We must act now to secure Britain's energy supply and unleash our economic potential.
Our open letter to
@RishiSunak
in
@TheSun
calling for him to remove the blockers to building new clean energy sources here in Britain 👇
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This is crazy.
The 1993 Jubilee Line extension environmental statement was just under 400 pages long. The Sizewell C statement was 44,000!
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Welcome news that Government is looking at speeding up delivery of major infrastructure projects.
It’s ridiculous that it takes up to 13 years for an offshore wind farm to start generating power, when construction only take 2-3 years
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London is in a housing crisis.
The winner of the mayoral election in May has a chance to change this.
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A month ago we launched Britain Remade, a new campaign for economic growth.
Here’s what we’ve been up to since we launched 🧵
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Britain is facing a recession
Tomorrow,
@Jeremy_hunt
will make a financial statement which he hopes will get us “back to growing healthily”
Here are 2 key things we want from that statement🧵
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The proposed second staircase rules impose billions in costs, while doing very little to help with building safety. They should be scrapped.
NEW Government publication reveals that the second staircase rules which have blocked thousands of homes had costs that exceeded the benefits by £2.7 BILLION. We call for an urgent cross-party consensus to repeal them
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Another day, another delay to an infrastructure project in Britain...
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In 1925 the idea of the National Grid was first conceived... 11 years later it was up and running...
Today it takes up to 13 years for a single wind farm to get a grid connection...
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Government have released their "Nationally Significant Infrastructure action plan"
🏗️ It's a plan to speed up planning rules for infrastructure projects such as nuclear power stations, airports, and wind farms.
But... is it any good?🧵
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London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses
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Road building costs in Britain are
23% more expensive than in France 🇫🇷
17% more expensive than in Canada 🇨🇦
13% more expensive than in Italy 🇮🇹
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🚨 New polling we've commissioned finds 55% of Scots support building new Nuclear to help reach net zero 🚨
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Only Canada and the USA pay more than Britain per mile for new underground or metro lines
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Disposable incomes are set for their biggest ever fall on record.
"We need to get Britain building - new sources of clean energy, new homes, and new industries." - Britain Remade's
@samrichardswebb
reacts to the Autumn Statement.
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It costs too much to build things in Britain
🚂It costs twice as much to build an urban rail system in Britain than it does in Germany
💷The planning process alone for the Lower Thames Crossing cost more than it took Norway to build the longest road tunnel in the world...
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🚨We’re launching a new campaign to get the third Menai Crossing built 🚨
Find out why👇🔊
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Why are we not building beautifully and affordably?
3 words: The planning system
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Many of Britain's biggest problems have the same common cause:
We're not building enough
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London’s current housing target is 52,000 homes, but we’ve not built that many homes since the 1930’s.
At the same time, London has seen jobs surge 62% and its population grow by 2 million.
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"Failure to build new sources of clean energy, new railways, new transport links and enough new houses is making us all poorer... we don't think this is inevitable"
@samrichardswebb
on our campaign
'The average British family is now poorer than the average German or American family, and by the end of this decade, is set to be poorer than the average Polish family on current trajectories.'
CEO of Britain Remade, Sam Richards, discusses improving Britain's economic growth.
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At 94,534,273 words, it would take a planning inspector 328 full days to read the entire planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing
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"Majority of British public at odds with Rishi Sunak over planning rules for green energy projects"
Britain Remade polling reported in
@theipaper
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Small Modular Reactors could be a game changer
But we now urgently need the Government to designate sites for new nuclear, while streamlining the planning system so a 40,000 page environmental assessment isn't needed for each individual small reactor
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Great news that the Government has seen sense and given Hornsea Four wind farm the go-ahead
It's bonkers that it takes up to 13 years for an offshore wind farm to go from idea to generating power, when actually building them takes 2 years at most
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The Lower Thames Crossing is a proposed river crossing, linking Essex and Kent. It’s essential for relieving pressure on the Dartford Crossing and improving journeys between some of Britain’s busiest ports
At 2.4-miles long, it's set to be Britain’s longest road tunnel
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British consumers are "massively overpaying" for energy because of two issues:
planning and grid connections
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People from all over Britain and the world, including 1/3 of England’s immigrants, come to London. But housebuilding has failed to keep pace.
Our analysis shows that for every 10 jobs London has added over the last decade, only 3 homes have been built.
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"The challenge is our planning system, which holds back investment in these new cheap sources of clean energy.
If we lift these planning barriers, like the ban on onshore wind, we'll see the private sector flood in with investment"
@samrichardswebb
on the Net Zero Strategy 👇
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We can't afford to dawdle on new nuclear if we want to end our dependence on expensive imported gas.
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New onshore wind farms have been effectively banned in England since 2015.
🛑Let’s drop the ban.
Sign the petition today👇
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The Lower Thames Crossing’s application is one of the longest planning applications in British history.
When printed it weighs as much as three adult male polar bears- a staggering 1620kg
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Grim that the Government has AGAIN delayed taking a decision on whether to go ahead with widening the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham
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"We in Britain are world class at being an impossible place to get any projects going"
@tonydanker
is 100% right. If we want to grow our economy, create jobs and build new sources of clean energy, we need to remove the barriers to getting things built.
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This Cambridge housing plan is really exciting.
When we spoke to businesses there recently, we heard that, despite the city’s many strengths, investment is being held up by both a lack of lab space and a lack of homes.
We welcome the Government's announcement today- it's still far too hard to build the homes we need in the places we need them.
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New Britain Remade polling shows the North East is overwhelmingly in favour of new clean energy sources:
🍃 85% support new onshore wind
🌊 90% support new offshore wind
☀️ 88% support new solar farms
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Our failure to build the new homes we need means London has some of the oldest housing stock in Europe.
This is bad for the climate and bad for Londoners
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Today it takes a couple in the capital, earning a normal income, 30 years to save for a deposit for the average property, up from just 4 years in the mid 1990s.
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"Britain Remade, a pro-growth campaign group, crunched these numbers and discovered the average number of planning documents for an infrastructure application tripled in the eight years to 2020"
Our research featured in
@emmacduncan
's great piece 👇
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Important new report, which finds Britain has a backlog of 4.3 million homes that are missing from the
housing market.
It's why prices are too high, and not enough young people can afford a home of their own.
We need to get building 🏘️
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Your bills are too high for the government to ban the cheapest source of power.
74% of the UK support building new onshore wind
Sign our petition to drop the ban:
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Nearly 10,000 of you agree it’s time to drop the ban on onshore wind 🍃
Have your say and sign our petition today 🖊️
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Starmer's speech diagnoses the core problem facing Britain.
From roads, to laboratories to homes: we just don't build enough
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1) No cuts to overall capital spending
The Chancellor has signalled that all capital spending is under review ahead of the Autumn statement
But cutting overall investment in new infrastructure would damage the UK’s long-term economic prospects.
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We believe Britain can do it again.
But it means building a movement large enough to ensure Westminster, and other decision makers, hear the voices of those who support pro-growth policies like building new clean energy, new homes, new roads and new railways.
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Young Londoners in good jobs are forced to choose between lengthy commutes or crowded houseshares, because Politicians have chosen to not build the homes London needs.
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Bad news, which is the direct result of Government complacency and failure
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🚨NEW 🚨building the homes Britain desperately needs could boost the economy by £33.1bn a year!
New modelling from
@BritainRemade
shows that building the homes Britain desperately needs could boost the economy by £33.1bn a year and give the Chancellor an £18.1bn boost ahead of the budget 🧵
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Why does this matter?
Because high rents and high house prices are holding Britain’s economy back.
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If stacked on top of each other, the pages of the Lower Thames Crossing planning application would be taller than eight double decker buses, or 15 telephone boxes
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"Right across the British economy it’s too hard to build anything. The result is our bills are higher, housing less affordable, and we lose out on the good jobs that come with building new infrastructure and new industries"
Our campaign director
@samrichardswebb
in
@ConHome
+
@samrichardswebb
of
@BritainRemade
opens a
@ConHome
mini-series on growth. The planning system is holding growth back, he writes – and must be made to let go
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“We cannot spend 5 years dealing with permits before starting to build infrastructures that we know are necessary and could be finished in just 12 months"
Important piece on the planning barriers that stop us building new energy infrastructure:
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It costs more to build a new nuclear power station in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world
When comparing the construction cost per megawatt capacity for every power plant built since 2000 w/ reliable cost data (39 in 16 countries), Britain ranks second to last.
Only America performs worse.
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Halting building new road projects helps cut carbon emissions, right?
Not really...
A🧵on our latest research...
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🚨Over 10,000 people have now signed our petition calling on the Government to drop the ban on building new onshore wind 🚨🥳
Don't miss out on the chance to have your voice heard- sign today 👇
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To build the homes Londoners need, we have to use London's land better
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It doesn’t have to be this way. Britain built the world’s first railway line, the world’s first coal-fired power station, and the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant.
We built the future - and our lives got better.
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If you were a malign foreign power blessed with massive fossil fuel reserves, what policies would you want Britain to adopt?
It would look a lot like Britain's current energy policy:
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Cumbria has a proud nuclear heritage.
But it’s been 20 years since nuclear power was generated at Sellafield.
We think that should change.
There should be new nuclear power in Cumbria, delivering jobs for the region, and clean energy for the whole country.
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Great mention by
@LiamHalligan
of our polling showing 85% of people in the North East support building new onshore wind.
If we want to create jobs and bring down bills, we need to build the new sources of clean energy that people want
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Since 2020, only TWO onshore wind turbines have been built in England.
Why?
Because Government rules mean new onshore wind farms are effectively banned in England.
We're campaigning to tell Rishi to drop the ban.
Agree? Sign and share our petition ✏️
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Not for us, cheers
Hello! We are excited to announce the arrival and imminent launch of 'Degrowth London'🧵1/4
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Pleased to see
@samrichardswebb
quoted in this piece.
We need to drop the ban on onshore wind in England
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"The UK's problem is an inability to get things built 🏗️🏡🛣️🚅
Ahead of the Budget, our head of policy
@Sam_Dumitriu
spoke to the
@FT
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From Northumberland to Newquay, people across Britain overwhelmingly back building more clean energy projects.
It’s time for the government to act so we can get spades in the ground and create thousands of good-quality jobs.
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"Our failure to approve new infrastructure quickly has left us dependent on dirty, expensive imported energy, strengthening the position of the world’s dictators in the process"
@Sam_Dumitriu
on the reasons why Britain struggles to build new infrastructure
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This week we visited
@TeesworksUK
in Redcar, to see how it’s being transformed into a home for major clean energy and net zero projects, creating thousands of jobs👇🔊
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Time and time again, it's not funding holding new infrastructure back- it's planning rules
The CEO of one of the UK's largest public electric vehicle charging networks on what's holding them back.
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But in order to do this, the country needs a plan.
Back To What We’re Good At is our plan for how the winner of the election can get the country building again.
You can read it here:
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1/ In 2022, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine caused gas prices to rise by 400%, ushering in the sharpest fall in living standards since records began.
How have we got to this position? How do we change that? 🧵
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Bonkers
The Government have announced that they're delaying taking a planning decision on a new full chain carbon capture, usage and storage facility in Teesside for another 4 months.
And we wonder why we can’t get anything built in this country!
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The Sunnica Energy Farm would be one of the largest solar farms in Europe and could produce enough clean energy to power 172,000 homes.
But while East Cambridgeshire and Suffolk County Councils may have declared climate emergencies, neither council backs the plan.
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In the run up to election day, we'll be sharing ideas from our plan to get Britain building again.
8: Empower city regions to fund new transport infrastructure
In the run up to election day, we'll be sharing ideas from our plan to get Britain building again.
7: Fast-tracking all clean energy projects
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If we build new sources of clean energy we can get bills down⚡️
If we build new clean transport links we can make it easier to get to the best jobs🚄
If we build the beautiful, energy-efficient homes the country needs, we can give people a chance to get on the housing ladder🏘️
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Colchester Council makes the naughty list for the second time, this time for opposing the Bradwell B nuclear plant.
Despite being home to a nuclear power station since 1957, in August 2020 councillors voted unanimously to reject the proposal for Bradwell B.
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Since we launched 18 months ago, we've been speaking to people up and down the country.
Everyone tells us the same thing: it feels like nothing works any more.
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But for the candidates to take notice, we need as many Londoners as possible to back our plan.
You can read our plan to Get London Building, and join our campaign here:
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In the run up to election day, we'll be sharing ideas from our plan to get Britain building again.
4: Metroise local rail
In the run up to election day, we'll be sharing one idea a day from our plan to get Britain building again.
3: Fast-track a new nuclear power station at Wylfa
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