Planning Bill poses huge threat to wild fish populations

Planning Bill poses huge threat to wild fish populations

WildFish believes that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill – now at the Committee stage in the Commons – threatens the end of the modern consensus on nature conservation in England and Wales. [1] Some voices (mainly from within the Government itself, some larger developers, property law firms and, strangely, a handful of environmental organisations) have welcomed the Government’s excessively-hyped “win-win” for developers and the environment in…