Malcolm Tait
@malcolmtait.bsky.social
Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist
www.planningfornature.org
www.planningfornature.org
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🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.
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And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too! doi.org/10.5061/drya...
August 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too! doi.org/10.5061/drya...
Fascinating research from colleagues at @sheffielduni.bsky.social on impact of urbanization on moth and hoverfly populations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gardeners urged to collaborate to help moths and hover flies thrive in cities
Researchers found moths and hover flies are more negatively affected by urbanisation than bees
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Fascinating research from colleagues at @sheffielduni.bsky.social on impact of urbanization on moth and hoverfly populations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And another example from the French Alps where the marmots gamble, but where there aren't meadows full of Monarch butterflies!
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And another example from the French Alps where the marmots gamble, but where there aren't meadows full of Monarch butterflies!
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Chapman, K. & Tait, M., (2025) “Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6186. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting
Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporar...
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July 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Chapman, K. & Tait, M., (2025) “Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6186. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
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I am looking forward to discussing why the UK is so crap at looking after #biodiversity at the Byline Festival with Alexa Culver, @kitstoner.bsky.social, @malcolmtait.bsky.social and @carexnigra.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Visit the website to find out more: lnkd.in/eXfAnf3k
Visit the website to find out more: lnkd.in/eXfAnf3k
July 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I am looking forward to discussing why the UK is so crap at looking after #biodiversity at the Byline Festival with Alexa Culver, @kitstoner.bsky.social, @malcolmtait.bsky.social and @carexnigra.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Visit the website to find out more: lnkd.in/eXfAnf3k
Visit the website to find out more: lnkd.in/eXfAnf3k
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Read our response to Defra's consultation on improving the implementation of #Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and Brownfield development.
Our response to Defra’s consultation on improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and brownfield development
Read our response to the consultation here
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Read our response to Defra's consultation on improving the implementation of #Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and Brownfield development.
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@skomerisland.bsky.social just put a BRILLIANT gay birds post up on Facebook, in celebration of Pride. And they are copping hate for it in the comments.
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
June 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@skomerisland.bsky.social just put a BRILLIANT gay birds post up on Facebook, in celebration of Pride. And they are copping hate for it in the comments.
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
"the struggle between local residents and festivalgoers deserves less scrutiny than the tensions between austerity, profit and urban public space." @michaelchessum.bsky.social on Brockwell Park and YIMBYism
Uggly Fences www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Uggly Fences www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Michael Chessum | Uggly Fences
‘Can’t you ping elsewhere?’ The question, daubed on the twelve-foot green fences encircling much of Brockwell Park...
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June 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"the struggle between local residents and festivalgoers deserves less scrutiny than the tensions between austerity, profit and urban public space." @michaelchessum.bsky.social on Brockwell Park and YIMBYism
Uggly Fences www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Uggly Fences www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Battleship grey of the battleship of a moth - the Poplar Hawk-moth
June 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Battleship grey of the battleship of a moth - the Poplar Hawk-moth
I thought at the time of the Spring Statement that the OBR estimates on housebuilding were extremely optimistic...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I thought at the time of the Spring Statement that the OBR estimates on housebuilding were extremely optimistic...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A nice couple of moths yesterday: Lime Hawkmoth and Elephant Hawkmoth. Both relatively common, but nonetheless very beautiful
May 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A nice couple of moths yesterday: Lime Hawkmoth and Elephant Hawkmoth. Both relatively common, but nonetheless very beautiful
It was great to speak on this great podcast. Excellent hosting from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social - we covered a lot in a short time, including the problematic way that the government is talking about newts and bats blocking development!
Episode 4 of Urban Radar, in conversation with @malcolmtait.bsky.social on recent #planning reforms, raising a crucial question: Are these planning reforms guiding us in the right direction?
Tune in here lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
For any feedback write to is at : urbanradar-group@sheffield.ac.uk
Tune in here lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
For any feedback write to is at : urbanradar-group@sheffield.ac.uk
May 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It was great to speak on this great podcast. Excellent hosting from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social - we covered a lot in a short time, including the problematic way that the government is talking about newts and bats blocking development!
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At Urban Radar @malcolmtait.bsky.social & @kierachapman.bsky.social in conversation with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry talk about their recent report on biodiversity and planning, and why it's so important to rethink our planning approaches if we want to turn things around.
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May 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
At Urban Radar @malcolmtait.bsky.social & @kierachapman.bsky.social in conversation with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry talk about their recent report on biodiversity and planning, and why it's so important to rethink our planning approaches if we want to turn things around.
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A rather belated admission from Government that housebuilders benefit from building slowly. Reheating quite a few existing ideas, and a lot rests on councils and housebuilders agreeing build out rates.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers face fines as Rayner steps up plans to speed up UK housebuilding
Councils will get powers to impose ‘delayed home penalty’ under latest government proposals
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
A rather belated admission from Government that housebuilders benefit from building slowly. Reheating quite a few existing ideas, and a lot rests on councils and housebuilders agreeing build out rates.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Very frustrating news! Despite our research showing that 75% of bird boxes were not installed, despite being required in planning consents, apparently this isn't enough to move towards mandatory provision of swift bricks
So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Very frustrating news! Despite our research showing that 75% of bird boxes were not installed, despite being required in planning consents, apparently this isn't enough to move towards mandatory provision of swift bricks
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social goes ballistic on Labour's planning reforms, and quite rightly so. They give licence to trash nature, diminish democratic rights in planning decisions, and also won't work in building the 1.8m homes the government wants.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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May 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social goes ballistic on Labour's planning reforms, and quite rightly so. They give licence to trash nature, diminish democratic rights in planning decisions, and also won't work in building the 1.8m homes the government wants.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Lost Nature report for the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social
is now written up in the @newscientist.com! A really good article and insightful comments from Natalie Duffus and Tom Oliver.
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
is now written up in the @newscientist.com! A really good article and insightful comments from Natalie Duffus and Tom Oliver.
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
www.newscientist.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Our Lost Nature report for the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social
is now written up in the @newscientist.com! A really good article and insightful comments from Natalie Duffus and Tom Oliver.
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
is now written up in the @newscientist.com! A really good article and insightful comments from Natalie Duffus and Tom Oliver.
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
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I managed a jaunt to Lindrick Common this morning to check on the Rare Spring Sedge. This SSSI golf course is fairly sympathetically managed for it's interesting plants.
The last record for this site was 2008, so good to refind it. A fellow @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social found another patch last month
The last record for this site was 2008, so good to refind it. A fellow @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social found another patch last month
May 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I managed a jaunt to Lindrick Common this morning to check on the Rare Spring Sedge. This SSSI golf course is fairly sympathetically managed for it's interesting plants.
The last record for this site was 2008, so good to refind it. A fellow @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social found another patch last month
The last record for this site was 2008, so good to refind it. A fellow @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social found another patch last month
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So Angela Rayner just issued a judgement based on the new Planning Policy Guidance about the greenbelt - and it's a sign of seismic change to come in the countryside.
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
May 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So Angela Rayner just issued a judgement based on the new Planning Policy Guidance about the greenbelt - and it's a sign of seismic change to come in the countryside.
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
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Govt is portraying the new #PlanningBill as 'win-win' for nature & people. This is false. Sec of State needs to amend this statement so as not to mislead MPs' votes. We will apply for judicial review if correction not forthcoming ⚖️
wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...
wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...
Wild Justice starts legal proceedings against Government’s controversial Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice
Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament […]
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May 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Govt is portraying the new #PlanningBill as 'win-win' for nature & people. This is false. Sec of State needs to amend this statement so as not to mislead MPs' votes. We will apply for judicial review if correction not forthcoming ⚖️
wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...
wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...
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👀
🚨BREAKING🚨
📢 So .. are Starmer, Reeves & Rayner headed for big shock in their quest to weaken UK climate and nature laws?
✅ Politico report that Johnson's Brexit trade deal might put an end to these very nasty parts of their Planning and Infrastructure bill
👉 www.politico.eu/article/newt...
📢 So .. are Starmer, Reeves & Rayner headed for big shock in their quest to weaken UK climate and nature laws?
✅ Politico report that Johnson's Brexit trade deal might put an end to these very nasty parts of their Planning and Infrastructure bill
👉 www.politico.eu/article/newt...
May 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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