US EditionRachel Reeves ‘to strip back’ environmental rules to boost infrastructure
Rachel Reeves aims to reduce environmental legal barriers by limiting challenges and revising species protections to accelerate infrastructure projects and economic growth.
- Rachel Reeves is reportedly planning to relax environmental safeguards through a Planning and Infrastructure Bill to accelerate infrastructure development and stimulate economic growth.
- This move follows concerns that current European-derived regulations and legal challenges significantly delay projects, exemplified by the HS2 £100 million bat tunnel controversy.
- Proposed changes include a smaller UK-only list of protected species and abolishing the EU precautionary principle requiring developers to prove no harm to protected sites.
- Paul Miner of CPRE warned that weakening habitats regulations would hinder progress on nature recovery, echoing widespread concerns from environmental groups.
- If enacted, these reforms could accelerate construction but risk backlash from conservationists and alienate Labour voters concerned about environmental protection.
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Rachel Reeves to slash environmental protections to boost builders
Rachel Reeves is looking to take the axe to environmental protections blocking infrastructure projects in a bid to boost Labour’s building pledges. The Chancellor is considering reforms to prevent nature concerns from inhibiting new developments as she desperately looks to supercharge her growth agenda. Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure bill is in the committee stage at the House of Lords but the Treasury is reportedly already gearing up for …
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