Wildlife trust slams 'disastrous' new planning bill

Wildlife trust slams 'disastrous' new planning bill

Sussex Wildlife Trust has slammed the government's "disastrous" new Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

Planning bill fails nature say wildlife chiefs

NATURE is not to blame for government planning failures That is the clear message from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust which has accused the current Labour government of of breaking its own promises to nature after discussion ended on the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. A new survey found just a quarter of people believed the Government was taking the problems facing nature seriously enough, and less than a third that it kept its promise to improve …

Five reasons the Planning and Infrastructure bill will be disastrous for British wildlife

Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill aims to allow companies to pay to trash the British countryside. It will do away with existing checks and balances in the planning system and establish a legal framework allowing developers to destroy irreplaceable natural ecosystems. Corporations will pay into a planned Nature Restoration Fund in order to ‘offset’ the […]

UK may have failed to protect wild birds with environmental laws, watchdog finds - Business Fast

The government may have failed to protect critical wild bird populations by neglecting to implement environmental law properly, the environmental watchdog has found.Wild bird populations are declining across the UK. Under the EU, certain parts of Britain’s landscape were designated specially protected conservation zones when the UK was still a member state. They include estuaries,

Special Report: “The Planning Bill Opens The Floodgates For Developers To Concrete Over Woodlands, Wetlands, And Wildlife-Rich Areas”-Will Havering Lose Its Greenbelt?

“This bill is nothing short of a bulldozer through Britain’s last remaining wild spaces. It dresses itself up as ‘progress,’ but what it really does is silence local voices and sacrifice nature on the altar of profit.”