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04.08.2021A tool that is intended to help built environment professionals play a greater part in nature recovery and climate resilience has been launched.
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01.07.202125 year environment plan | biodiversity net gain | Climate Change | climate crisis | England | Environmental | environmental audit committee | nature crisisGovernment policies and targets to improve the natural environment are ‘grandiose statements lacking teeth’ and all too often government departments spend more on practices that exploit the natural environment than conserve it, according to the Environmental Audit Committee.
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28.05.2021Plans for a major mixed-use development opposite Twickenham Stadium can go ahead, after an inspector decided that the scheme’s shortcomings in terms of housing mix and light levels were outweighed by its...
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01.04.2021Plans for a large new home in Hampshire ‘in the great classical tradition’ have been rejected by an inspector, who decided that the scheme fell short of the second limb of NPPF paragraph 79(e) despite its ‘...
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19.02.2021biodiversity net gain | East Midlands | Housing | inquiry | settlement boundaries | spatial planningAn inspector has approved 260 homes at Desborough, Northamptonshire, deciding that although the town’s housing requirement had already been ‘considerably exceeded’, the scheme would not challenge Kettering’s...
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19.11.2020Golf clubs – which occupy around 2 per cent of the UK's land area – can be a crucial ally in the battle to increase the nation's biodiversity, argues Karen Colebourn
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17.11.2020Should the biodiversity net gain system be focusing more explicitly on supporting human wellbeing? Is biodiversity recovery best served by working on individual sites or at a larger, more strategic scale? To what extent can the biodiversity net gain system contribute to nature recovery on a...
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20.08.2020The value and potential of green space and environmental improvement have been poorly understood within the planning system. Changes are afoot, but what sort of impact will they have? Keith Lancaster and...
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29.07.2020Housebuilder 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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15.05.2020biodiversity net gain | Environmental | Housing | housing crisis | recovered appeal | Rural | SSSI | Water & Marine | YorkshireMajor housing plans for land next to a site of special scientific interest that were opposed by a cross-party group of MPs and Sir David Attenborough have been rejected by the housing secretary Robert...
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