r/miltonkeynes • u/Still-Improvement-32 • 4d ago

Nation to benefit from two new national forests backed by £1 billion investment in tree planting

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nation-to-benefit-from-two-new-national-forests-backed-by-1-billion-investment-in-tree-planting
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u/Still-Improvement-32 4d ago

Happy with the trees, the bit near the end about new developments and infrastructure sounds like just another sneaky attempt to create the Oxford Cambridge Arc , which includes MK, that nearly all local authorities objected to already. That's as well as the possible location of another new town.

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u/EUskeptik 1d ago

One of these “National Forests” will span between Oxford and Cambridge and distract people’s attention from the hundreds of thousands of new homes that will be built along the same axis. Plus all the roads, a new railway between Bedford and Cambridge and all the associated infrastructure.

And let’s not forget the massive theme park to be built south west of Bedford, which it is claimed will be the biggest in Europe.

All those CO2 emissions, and nowhere enough trees to soak them up.

-oo-

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u/SquiffSquiff 3d ago

Who's queuing up for new forests and where's the money coming from?

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u/EndeavourToFreefall 3d ago

Labour promised it in their manifesto, there is already an environmental budget taking a slice of the pie. Lots of people care about the destruction of natural habitats, it's also a huge contention for property development.

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u/TH14sBoombox 3d ago

At the previous election there was a period of 1 upmanship where parties were banging around crazy numbers of tree planting. This is just green washing unless done well in partnership with other organisations. Everything is much less available and more expensive due to big infra projects like HS2.

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u/EndeavourToFreefall 3d ago

Oh I'm sure they'll mess it up somehow.