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Essential Lydiard Park

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on June 25, 2019

If you enjoy Lydiard Park it is necessary make your voice heard ...

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We don’t need it now (Part II) the application

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on May 16, 2019

This is a speculative application which offers little to the village and appears to be a dormitory for Swindon.....

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Democratic Deficit ~ on one’s own doorstep

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on April 30, 2019

....This is how poor decisions are made that all come to regret in the future.

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We don’t need it now ~ another 85 houses

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on March 29, 2019

This additional interest in the Land at Restrop is far too soon...

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It has finally turned up …..and it is not good

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on March 17, 2019

... why is expanding a green composting site not always a good thing?

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Its been rumbling on for years: extension to composting facility at Purton

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on February 20, 2019

Composting is a Good Thing or is it....?

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Some long running sagas to close out the year

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on December 27, 2018

...thanks for reading these notes and I wish all readers a very relaxed 2019

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Houses in Purton ~ Restrop Road ~ a bad day for Purton

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on November 29, 2018

Yesterday, in the afternoon, the sustainable basis of the neighbourhood plan was comprehensively undermined....

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Referendum ~ and the scores are in

Written by Professor Richard Pagett on November 2, 2018

Thanks to all those who took time to vote, which ever way you voted.

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Professor Richard Pagett

... an international development advisor and author specialising in a range of environmental, social, sustainability, climate change, security, resilience and other issues. He holds a University of London BSc (Botany, Geology and Zoology) and a science-based PhD. Following his degrees, he took a postdoctoral research fellowship for four years at the University of Leeds working on rare earth geochemistry in the deep ocean. He then began a career of international development around the world. He works mostly with international funding agencies and national governments and has hands-on knowledge and experience in more than 180 countries.

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