The government's proposed planning and infrastructure bill threatens to dismantle key environmental protections in England, marking a significant regression in wildlife defense. It allows developers to sidestep stringent rules that once required them to avoid or mitigate harm to valuable habitats, promoting a system where paying a nature restoration levy can clear the way for damaging construction projects. The bill's vague provisions suggest that as long as developers commit to future habitat creation, current ecosystem destruction is permissible, raising serious concerns about the impact on irreplaceable ecosystems and overall environmental health in the country.
The government's planning and infrastructure bill erases decades of environmental protections, allowing developers to destroy habitats as long as they pay a nature restoration levy.
This bill weakens wildlife and habitat protection, permitting developers to disregard environmental damage by only needing to 'believe' in future restoration efforts.
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