Planning and infrastructure bill is not a ‘great nature sellout’ | Letters
Mary Creagh MP responds to a piece by George Monbiot and says the bill is a win-win for people and for nature recoveryI was disappointed to read George Monbiot’s deeply misleading column on the planning and infrastructure bill and proposals for a nature restoration fund (Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime, 24 April).We need more housing, energy, and transport links, and more nature. The bill seeks to deliver all of these things, but faster than we do now. The bill does not repeal habitat or species protections or give a licence to do harm. Rather, it creates an alternative mechanism for conservation measures to be agreed and funded more quickly and strategically than at present. Continue reading...
Mary Creagh MP responds to a piece by George Monbiot and says the bill is a win-win for people and for nature recovery
I was disappointed to read George Monbiot’s deeply misleading column on the planning and infrastructure bill and proposals for a nature restoration fund (Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime, 24 April).
We need more housing, energy, and transport links, and more nature. The bill seeks to deliver all of these things, but faster than we do now. The bill does not repeal habitat or species protections or give a licence to do harm. Rather, it creates an alternative mechanism for conservation measures to be agreed and funded more quickly and strategically than at present. Continue reading...
