Houses under construction on a housing development
NATURE campaigners warned today that Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill could become a “licence to destroy.”
Currently at committee stage, the Bill aims to streamline regulations for developers so they can speed up their projects.
But leaders of 32 nature organisations have written to the environment and housing secretaries, warning that the Bill will weaken environmental law and risk local species extinction as well as irreversible habitat loss.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
