biodiversity

Welsh Planner Live: Ecosystem restoration the answer to biodiversity loss

21.09.2020

Simon Wicks

Planning policy needs to shift away from a ‘linear’ approach to measuring net gain and towards a broader concept of ‘ecosystem restoration’ if the profession is to help arrest biodiversity loss and support its role in adapting to climate change.

Appeal: Garden extension would harm green infrastructure strategy

18.09.2020

Matt Moody

biodiversity | Environmental | garden extension | green infrastructure | South East

An inspector has rejected a homeowner’s application to incorporate an area of council-owned land into his garden, citing the land’s ‘intrinsic value’ and its contribution towards the council’s green...

Government’s planning reforms will increase the threat to nature

17.09.2020

Laura Edgar

The Wildlife Trusts has suggested introducing a protection mechanism called Wildbelt to make sure that the government’s proposed planning reforms would address the climate and ecological crises.

Appeal: Lancaster moorings plan rejected for biodiversity and rural harm

04.08.2020

Huw Morris

A proposal to create moorings alongside the Lancaster Canal at Carnforth has been dismissed for harming biodiversity, the area’s rural character and appearance of the countryside.

England round-up: Major infrastructure schemes ‘need better coordination’; Deal is agreed on partnership to deliver garden community

31.07.2020

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 25 July-31 July, 2020

Appeal: Landscape-led rethink of Bolton housing scheme wins approval

30.07.2020

Matt Moody

Developer Bellway Homes has won permission to build 167 homes on protected land near Bolton, after persuading an inspector that the plans were ‘materially different’ from an application it made in 2018...

Housebuilder commits to biodiversity strategy

29.07.2020

Laura Edgar

Housebuilder Redrow has launched a ‘Nature for People’ biodiversity strategy, which has been established as part of a long-standing partnership with charity The Wildlife Trusts.

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Regenerate the countryside to regenerate the economy, says CPRE

02.07.2020

Laura Edgar

A countryside charity has called on the government to ensure that everyone has access to green space, after the early period of total lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 highlighted the inequalities surrounding who has access to it.

Warwick planners to pay wildlife group over loss of bat habitat

25.06.2020

Laura Edgar

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has ordered Warwick District Council to pay a local wildlife group £1,000 because it failed to consider properly the effect a development might have on local wildlife when it approved a planning application.

Appeal: 1.3-year housing supply justifies 76 homes in South Wales

19.06.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 76 homes within a designated landscape area and beyond the nearest settlement boundary can go ahead because an inspector considered the council’s ‘serious’ housing shortfall a material...

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