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Biodiversity Net Gain: Green Promises, Thin Results
The UK’s Biodiversity Net Gain scheme was meant to be our environmental shield. A simple promise that development would leave habitats “in a measurably better state than they were before.” It is sold as a key tool to halt “catastrophic declines in nature.” Fine words, neatly printed.
The proposal to develop an 1 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/10/biodiversity-net-gain-green-promises-thin-results/
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Tinghou: From Meeting Place to Housing Estate
Not the most flattering view for today, I will admit. A quiet field, currently earning its keep as horse pasture, pressed up against Lowcross Farm. I took the photograph for two reasons, neither of them aesthetic.
First, for the record. This field sits under a planning application for a new estate of 117 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/01/24/tinghou-from-meeting-place-to-housing-estate/
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In 1740, High Farm, Pinchinthorpe (centre of photo) was owned by Ralph Ward
Ward, a Guisborian, was "once described as the richest commoner in North Yorkshire" property in Boulby, Loftus, Aislaby (Yarm), Sandsend, and Guisborough. He was related to the Pease family of Darlington and through his sister's marriage to the Jackson family.
Farming seemed to have been his main business, buying ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31290
#Pinchinthorpe #18th-century #OnThisDay #OTD #RalphWard
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In 1740, High Farm, Pinchinthorpe (centre of photo) was owned by Ralph Ward
Ward, a Guisborian, was "once described as the richest commoner in North Yorkshire" property in Boulby, Loftus, Aislaby (Yarm), Sandsend, and Guisborough. He was related to the Pease family of Darlington and through his sister's marriage to the Jackson family.
Farming seemed to have been his main business, buying ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31290
#Pinchinthorpe #18th-century #OnThisDay #OTD #RalphWard