The Woodland Trust

A round-up of planning news in Northern Ireland: 17 April-23 April, 2021

With plans under way to deliver one million homes across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, conservation organisations have urged the government to look at this as the perfect opportunity to invest in nature.

Updates to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) were published in July last year. One year on, how are the changes bedding in – and are they making a difference?

Some local planners are failing to use the changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to safeguard trees and ancient woodland, according to the Woodland Trust.