Climate justice, action and updates from the South East
The A27 Arundel Bypass is being sold as a congestion fix. But once you unpack induced demand and the scheme's carbon ledger, it looks a lot like a decision to lock in more driving for decades. Here is how South East rebels can pull the thread.
Crest a rise on the A2 or the M20 and the new skyline is corrugated. Mega-sheds are swallowing green-belt farmland across the South East faster than any housing scheme, and the approvals keep coming with a smile and a jobs figure. Here's who is saying yes — and how to make them say it out loud, in public, with you in the room.
Across the South East, councils are wrapping climate decisions in engagement exercises with no obvious exit. Here’s how to spot the delay, test whether your feedback actually changed anything, and turn consultation paperwork into accountability pressure.
Across the South East, people are sitting on allotment waiting lists for years — sometimes long enough to watch a child start school and finish primary. That queue isn't an accident of popularity. It's what happens when land is treated as an asset instead of infrastructure, and rebels and community growers are starting to say so out loud.
Insurers are not just hiking premiums across Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire — some are quietly walking away. This is what uninsurability looks like, who it hits first, and how climate-justice campaigners can force the industry into the light.
Across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and the edges of the Thames Valley, bus routes are disappearing quietly — a timetable notice taped to a shelter, a consultation nobody heard about. It isn't just inconvenient. It pushes people into cars, hikes emissions and lands hardest on those who can least afford it. Here's the 2026 picture, and what rebels can do about it.
Every new data centre in the South East arrives with a glossy promise of green power and local jobs. But behind the planning application sits a very physical bargain: water, land, grid capacity and decades of energy demand. It’s time residents and councils read the small print.
Kent, Sussex and Surrey are being sold as England’s new wine country, with warming temperatures dressed up as a business opportunity. But behind the tasting-room gloss sits a harder question: who gets the land, the water and the profits — and who carries the risk?
A new wave of waste incinerators is being sold to the South East as 'energy recovery' — but the carbon accounting hides a dirty habit. Here's how local campaigns are fighting back, and how you can track the next planning application or pollution permit before the first lorry rolls in.
MPs are very good at sounding green in a newsletter and very bad at voting like it. This is a practical, slightly cynical guide to reading your South East MP's actual climate record — and turning what you find into action at the next surgery.
Gatwick wants a second runway, Farnborough wants more private jets, and a string of smaller aerodromes are quietly expanding freight and charter flights. The word doing all the work is growth. Here's the maths behind the brochure — and the live fights you can still get into.
Your council pension fund is one of the biggest pots of money in the region — and some of it is still tied to fossil fuel expansion. Here's where the decisions get made, what the funds actually hold, and how to get in the room this winter.
We can shut a road in twenty minutes flat. Can we put insulation in a Victorian terrace? Fuel poverty across Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire is a climate-justice issue dressed up as a housing technicality — and the retrofit agenda has stalled long enough.
Conditions, stop-and-search, lock-on offences and what happens in custody — a plain-English run through the legal terrain facing climate activists in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire this year. Not legal advice, but the groundwork you want in your head long before you need it.
Sea-level rise is not a distant scenario for Kent, Sussex, Hampshire or the Isle of Wight. This field guide maps the coastal flashpoints, the gaps in 2026 adaptation plans, and how South East rebels can back local campaigns without barging in.
If our actions only work for people who can walk five miles, stand for hours and cope with noise, then we are not building a movement for everyone. Here is a practical South East checklist for making rebellion genuinely accessible.
The nights have drawn in, the pavements are greasy and the next few months of campaigning are going to happen outdoors in the dark. Here's a practical, budget-friendly kit list for South East rebels — and a reminder that looking after each other is the strategy, not the soft bit.
The decisions that will shape the South East for the next twenty years are not being made in Westminster. They're being made at 7pm on a Tuesday in a room with bad carpet and a public gallery of six people. Here's how ordinary residents can get in the way — and win.
Water scarcity, sewage dumping and new reservoir plans are climate-justice issues hiding behind the South East's leafy commuter image. This year we should link the fight for water with the wider climate movement — and make concrete demands of councils and water companies.
From Gatwick's runway plans to chalk streams full of sewage, the South East is packed with climate flashpoints in 2026. Here is a rebel's map of what is kicking off, who is already on it, and how to join in without torching your energy.