Britain’s forests are a rare treasure — vital for climate, nature and the future. Yet the Forestry Commission still lacks a clear legal duty to protect them. That must change.
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill #NatureRecovery
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill #NatureRecovery
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Britain’s forests are a rare treasure — vital for climate, nature and the future. Yet the Forestry Commission still lacks a clear legal duty to protect them. That must change.
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill #NatureRecovery
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill #NatureRecovery
And #PlanningandInfrastructureBill will only worsen this nature deficit, which is doing such damage to #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
And #PlanningandInfrastructureBill will only worsen this nature deficit, which is doing such damage to #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bumblebees are already overlooked in planning law. The #PlanningandInfrastructureBill could destroy even more of their habitats, with no duty to replace them.
Nature needs your help, please write to your MP. Our friends @rspb.bsky.social have made it easy: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
Nature needs your help, please write to your MP. Our friends @rspb.bsky.social have made it easy: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
May 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Bumblebees are already overlooked in planning law. The #PlanningandInfrastructureBill could destroy even more of their habitats, with no duty to replace them.
Nature needs your help, please write to your MP. Our friends @rspb.bsky.social have made it easy: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
Nature needs your help, please write to your MP. Our friends @rspb.bsky.social have made it easy: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too
It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
While it may feel like the #planningandinfrastructurebill is inevitable, there’s still time to make a difference. Contact your MP today to ensure key wildlife protections aren’t swept aside. www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
May 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
While it may feel like the #planningandinfrastructurebill is inevitable, there’s still time to make a difference. Contact your MP today to ensure key wildlife protections aren’t swept aside. www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
It doesn’t matter what a government’s “intentions” are: what counts is what the legislation says. And what the legislation says is bad bad bad for nature.
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It doesn’t matter what a government’s “intentions” are: what counts is what the legislation says. And what the legislation says is bad bad bad for nature.
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#PlanningandInfrastructureBill
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#AngelaRayner
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
This is bad, really really bad...
www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
This is bad, really really bad...
www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
Billionaire Death Cult
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
www.monbiot.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#AngelaRayner
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
This is bad, really really bad...
www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
This is bad, really really bad...
www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
100% agree with @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. Low level of literacy and low level of willingness to learn or listen. The notion that nature can jog on somewhere else, or thrive in just-planted woods is either stupidity or wilful fantasy and lies.
#planningandinfrastructurebill
#planningandinfrastructurebill
“There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers,” I have written about his,
@magdalenoxford.bsky.social
#RemembranceDay
@philippullmanreal.bsky.social
@pricklesandpaws.bsky.social
#hedgehogs and much more!
hughwarwick.substack.com/p/planning-a...
@magdalenoxford.bsky.social
#RemembranceDay
@philippullmanreal.bsky.social
@pricklesandpaws.bsky.social
#hedgehogs and much more!
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Planning ... a disaster?
“There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers,” said Sally Hayns, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, in the Guardian yesterday.
hughwarwick.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
100% agree with @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. Low level of literacy and low level of willingness to learn or listen. The notion that nature can jog on somewhere else, or thrive in just-planted woods is either stupidity or wilful fantasy and lies.
#planningandinfrastructurebill
#planningandinfrastructurebill
Give me strength! It is astonishing that in a biodiversity crisis the Government can't even agree to a simple, cheap and effective measure.
#SwiftBrick #biodiversity #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
#SwiftBrick #biodiversity #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
May 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Give me strength! It is astonishing that in a biodiversity crisis the Government can't even agree to a simple, cheap and effective measure.
#SwiftBrick #biodiversity #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
#SwiftBrick #biodiversity #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
The government has let us down. Every nature lover in the land should be doing this. If nature has helped you along at any point do something v simple to help
It. Please. Or at the v least Re-post. Thanks! #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
It. Please. Or at the v least Re-post. Thanks! #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
June 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The government has let us down. Every nature lover in the land should be doing this. If nature has helped you along at any point do something v simple to help
It. Please. Or at the v least Re-post. Thanks! #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
It. Please. Or at the v least Re-post. Thanks! #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
Alex Sobel Planning & Infrastructure Bill March 2025
YouTube video by Alex Sobel
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March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBIll must protect irreplaceable habitats - please sign and share petition to #BanWindfarmsOnProtectedPeatland - need 120 signatures to reach 7K petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
March 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBIll must protect irreplaceable habitats - please sign and share petition to #BanWindfarmsOnProtectedPeatland - need 120 signatures to reach 7K petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
🏘️ An inquiry by MPs has revealed that nature is not an obstacle to building houses, directly challenging policies seeking to undermine our biodiversity such as the proposed amendments to the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill. Stop scapegoating nature!
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🏘️ An inquiry by MPs has revealed that nature is not an obstacle to building houses, directly challenging policies seeking to undermine our biodiversity such as the proposed amendments to the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill. Stop scapegoating nature!
Thank you for your tireless work on the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
And for your clear explainers on how Westminster politics works!
And for your clear explainers on how Westminster politics works!
I've tabled two crucial amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill: enforcing an “overall improvement test" or — if govt keep weakening nature protection — striking out Part 3 so they have to rewrite it. Report Stage is in June; the govt must fix the issues with this Bill before then.
May 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thank you for your tireless work on the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
And for your clear explainers on how Westminster politics works!
And for your clear explainers on how Westminster politics works!
If planning is supposed to be the way in which we organise ourselves in place, time and space, then the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill is an indictment of our ability to do so in a democratic, participatory way that will deliver sustainability.
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March 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If planning is supposed to be the way in which we organise ourselves in place, time and space, then the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill is an indictment of our ability to do so in a democratic, participatory way that will deliver sustainability.
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Politicians may spin their tales but businesses recognise our reliance on nature: Reflections from the #UKBusinessandBiodiversityForum2025
(see photo carousel)
#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital
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#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Politicians may spin their tales but businesses recognise our reliance on nature: Reflections from the #UKBusinessandBiodiversityForum2025
(see photo carousel)
#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital
(see photo carousel)
#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital
Join us for a FREE lunchtime #webinar on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
Our expert #policy & #ecology panel will share updates + insights
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#Planning #Infrastructure #Climate #Nature #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment
Our expert #policy & #ecology panel will share updates + insights
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#Planning #Infrastructure #Climate #Nature #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment
August 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Join us for a FREE lunchtime #webinar on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
Our expert #policy & #ecology panel will share updates + insights
Don’t miss it! Book now: events.cieem.net/Events/Event...
#Planning #Infrastructure #Climate #Nature #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment
Our expert #policy & #ecology panel will share updates + insights
Don’t miss it! Book now: events.cieem.net/Events/Event...
#Planning #Infrastructure #Climate #Nature #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment
'The planning system is a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis. It's crucial to every decision made. With @friends-earth.bsky.social @ukgbc.bsky.social @thetcpa.bsky.social & @hello-cse.bsky.social we sent this to MPs for the 2nd Reading of #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill shorturl.at/2UC2l
Planning & Infrastructure Bill: 2nd Reading — Rights Community Action
Rights Community Action , UK Green Building Council , Friends of the Earth , the Town and Country Planning Association and the Centre for Sustainable Energy sent the following letter to all MPs…
www.rightscommunityaction.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
'The planning system is a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis. It's crucial to every decision made. With @friends-earth.bsky.social @ukgbc.bsky.social @thetcpa.bsky.social & @hello-cse.bsky.social we sent this to MPs for the 2nd Reading of #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill shorturl.at/2UC2l
The government wants to blame planning and nature for the failure to build sufficient genuinely affordable and #HealthyHomes rather than recognise the failure of the market to deliver for decades #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #housing #growth
www.tcpa.org.uk/the-economic...
www.tcpa.org.uk/the-economic...
The economics of failure - Town and Country Planning Association
At such a crucial moment for our collective survival, Hugh Ellis asks why the government has chosen to reinforce a failed economic mode
www.tcpa.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The government wants to blame planning and nature for the failure to build sufficient genuinely affordable and #HealthyHomes rather than recognise the failure of the market to deliver for decades #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #housing #growth
www.tcpa.org.uk/the-economic...
www.tcpa.org.uk/the-economic...
How’s #Labour doing on its environment claims?
A view of the first year + a bit in power: Tues 4 Νov to #Bromley Friends of the Earth.
#aviation #biodiversity #climate #energy #planning #housing #planningandinfrastructurebill
#biodiversitynetgain #bng #rights #justice #transport #democracy
A view of the first year + a bit in power: Tues 4 Νov to #Bromley Friends of the Earth.
#aviation #biodiversity #climate #energy #planning #housing #planningandinfrastructurebill
#biodiversitynetgain #bng #rights #justice #transport #democracy
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
How’s #Labour doing on its environment claims?
A view of the first year + a bit in power: Tues 4 Νov to #Bromley Friends of the Earth.
#aviation #biodiversity #climate #energy #planning #housing #planningandinfrastructurebill
#biodiversitynetgain #bng #rights #justice #transport #democracy
A view of the first year + a bit in power: Tues 4 Νov to #Bromley Friends of the Earth.
#aviation #biodiversity #climate #energy #planning #housing #planningandinfrastructurebill
#biodiversitynetgain #bng #rights #justice #transport #democracy
🌿🏡⚡️Today the wide-ranging #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill has its 2nd Reading. Peers will be scrutinising how the major reforms proposed can deliver the housing and infrastructure we need while protecting the environment and delivering on our #climate and #nature commitments.
June 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🌿🏡⚡️Today the wide-ranging #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill has its 2nd Reading. Peers will be scrutinising how the major reforms proposed can deliver the housing and infrastructure we need while protecting the environment and delivering on our #climate and #nature commitments.
...Baroness Parminter is vital to our economic success, and to the safety and survival of future generations." Our letter, signed by 14 organisations, sent to Peers in advance of Report Stage of the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill www.rightscommunityaction.co.uk/news/joint-s...
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill - Lords, Report Stage — Rights Community Action (Copy)
Our last chance to put climate action at the heart of the Bill 21 October 2025 The planning system is vital in achieving our net zero future and in securing the climate resilience of…
www.rightscommunityaction.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
...Baroness Parminter is vital to our economic success, and to the safety and survival of future generations." Our letter, signed by 14 organisations, sent to Peers in advance of Report Stage of the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill www.rightscommunityaction.co.uk/news/joint-s...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill is a disaster for environmental regulation and public accountability and participation in environmental decisions: that's the price of UK Government making BlackRock its infrastructure idevelopment partner saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/b...
Blackrock CEO Fink says, Jump – Angela Rayner asks, How high?
This is about a 7 minute read. It looks at how the UK Government has tied its infrastructure investment plans – including big onshore windfarms – to the global asset manager BlackRock, …
saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill is a disaster for environmental regulation and public accountability and participation in environmental decisions: that's the price of UK Government making BlackRock its infrastructure idevelopment partner saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/b...
The Office for Environmental Protection has advised the government that, without changes, the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill will lead to “regression” in environmental protections in England.
Response from @ruthchambers.bsky.social, senior fellow 👇
Response from @ruthchambers.bsky.social, senior fellow 👇
May 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Office for Environmental Protection has advised the government that, without changes, the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill will lead to “regression” in environmental protections in England.
Response from @ruthchambers.bsky.social, senior fellow 👇
Response from @ruthchambers.bsky.social, senior fellow 👇
Email your local MP now and demand that they keep amendment 130 in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have provided a handy template to structure an email to your MP below:
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
#planningandinfrastructurebill #fornature
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have provided a handy template to structure an email to your MP below:
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
#planningandinfrastructurebill #fornature
Email your MP. Amendment 130 would make sure the new planning systems works for, not against nature.demand they keep amendment 130 in the Bill
It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.
action.wildlifetrusts.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Email your local MP now and demand that they keep amendment 130 in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have provided a handy template to structure an email to your MP below:
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
#planningandinfrastructurebill #fornature
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have provided a handy template to structure an email to your MP below:
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
#planningandinfrastructurebill #fornature