fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoHousing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Under the draft legislation proposed by Labour, developers will be able to pay into a national nature recovery fund and go ahead with their project straight away, instead of having to carry out an environmental survey and to first avoid, then mitigate damage, before putting spades into the ground. Experts say this is a regression on decades-old environmental law and it has been criticised as cash to trash by ecologists and environmental groups.
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