We have already lost so much nature. To weaken protections further is reckless. Ancient trees and vital habitats cannot be replaced once destroyed.
#NatureProtection #PlanningBill
#NatureProtection #PlanningBill
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We have already lost so much nature. To weaken protections further is reckless. Ancient trees and vital habitats cannot be replaced once destroyed.
#NatureProtection #PlanningBill
#NatureProtection #PlanningBill
Speaking to the #PlanningBill, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment
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bit.ly/fulldebatehere
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Speaking to the #PlanningBill, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment
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bit.ly/fulldebatehere
Labour is siding with corporations over wildlife. We need their Planning and Infrastructure Bill scrapped!
Sign the petition here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign the petition here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Labour is siding with corporations over wildlife. We need their Planning and Infrastructure Bill scrapped!
Sign the petition here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign the petition here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Repost if you agree the proposed Planning & Infrastructure bill needs scrapping!
Take action: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Take action: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Repost if you agree the proposed Planning & Infrastructure bill needs scrapping!
Take action: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Take action: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Public consultation? Scrapped. Wildlife protections? Downgraded. This is what Labour's planning and infrastructure bills mean.
The bill must be STOPPED!
Sign here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
The bill must be STOPPED!
Sign here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
August 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Public consultation? Scrapped. Wildlife protections? Downgraded. This is what Labour's planning and infrastructure bills mean.
The bill must be STOPPED!
Sign here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
The bill must be STOPPED!
Sign here 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
We owe future generations more than concrete and lost forests. The Planning Bill threatens the wild places kids today may never see. Stand for nature. Sign the petition! 🌳🧒
👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We owe future generations more than concrete and lost forests. The Planning Bill threatens the wild places kids today may never see. Stand for nature. Sign the petition! 🌳🧒
👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Imagine a future where forests, rivers, and local green spaces are sacrificed for unchecked development.
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Imagine a future where forests, rivers, and local green spaces are sacrificed for unchecked development.
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour.
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
August 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour.
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
The governments Planning & Infrastructure Bill lets developers destroy vital habitats—like ancient woodlands—by paying a "Nature Restoration Levy."
This isn’t conservation. It’s a licence to kill nature.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
This isn’t conservation. It’s a licence to kill nature.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
May 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The governments Planning & Infrastructure Bill lets developers destroy vital habitats—like ancient woodlands—by paying a "Nature Restoration Levy."
This isn’t conservation. It’s a licence to kill nature.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
This isn’t conservation. It’s a licence to kill nature.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
You can’t offset extinction - but Labour’s planning and infrastructure bill says otherwise.
Sign our petition telling Labour to scrap this destructive bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition telling Labour to scrap this destructive bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
You can’t offset extinction - but Labour’s planning and infrastructure bill says otherwise.
Sign our petition telling Labour to scrap this destructive bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign our petition telling Labour to scrap this destructive bill 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Bats are not the reason house prices are high. They have nothing to do with homelessness. We need to call out the government’s lies. They can’t get away with this. #TeamBat #TeamNewt #planningbill
August 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bats are not the reason house prices are high. They have nothing to do with homelessness. We need to call out the government’s lies. They can’t get away with this. #TeamBat #TeamNewt #planningbill
Thread/ More stark warnings about the #PlanningBill today, with OEP branding it a ‘regression’ in environmental law
When will Government take heed and support the amendments needed to deliver for nature, people & a resilient economy?
www.theoep.org.uk/report/oep-g...
When will Government take heed and support the amendments needed to deliver for nature, people & a resilient economy?
www.theoep.org.uk/report/oep-g...
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thread/ More stark warnings about the #PlanningBill today, with OEP branding it a ‘regression’ in environmental law
When will Government take heed and support the amendments needed to deliver for nature, people & a resilient economy?
www.theoep.org.uk/report/oep-g...
When will Government take heed and support the amendments needed to deliver for nature, people & a resilient economy?
www.theoep.org.uk/report/oep-g...
This👇 is how it should be done
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This👇 is how it should be done
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Govt’s #PlanningBill would allow developers to pay cash to trash wildlife & the environment. The nature levy isn’t a tool for ecological recovery - it’s a license to kill nature. Pleased to join ecologists & experts to sign letter to MPs👇
@zero-hour.bsky.social
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@zero-hour.bsky.social
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Planning bill would allow builders to ‘pay cash to trash’ nature, say UK experts
Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPs
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The Govt’s #PlanningBill would allow developers to pay cash to trash wildlife & the environment. The nature levy isn’t a tool for ecological recovery - it’s a license to kill nature. Pleased to join ecologists & experts to sign letter to MPs👇
@zero-hour.bsky.social
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@zero-hour.bsky.social
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
The Planning Bill could silence your voice and bulldoze through vital wildlife habitats. Once they're gone, they're gone for good.
Speak up before it's too late. Sign the petition to stop this reckless reform 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Speak up before it's too late. Sign the petition to stop this reckless reform 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Planning Bill could silence your voice and bulldoze through vital wildlife habitats. Once they're gone, they're gone for good.
Speak up before it's too late. Sign the petition to stop this reckless reform 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Speak up before it's too late. Sign the petition to stop this reckless reform 👇
protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill puts nature up for sale, handing power to developers and silencing communities. It’s a direct threat to our wild places.
Don’t let them sell out what belongs to us all. Sign the petition now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Don’t let them sell out what belongs to us all. Sign the petition now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
August 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill puts nature up for sale, handing power to developers and silencing communities. It’s a direct threat to our wild places.
Don’t let them sell out what belongs to us all. Sign the petition now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Don’t let them sell out what belongs to us all. Sign the petition now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
🧵Previous attempts to speed up environment planning rules were deregulatory: ripping up rules defending rivers from pollution, habitat from destruction, wildlife from extinction. The #PlanningBill sets a new tone aiming for nature recovery & development.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🧵Previous attempts to speed up environment planning rules were deregulatory: ripping up rules defending rivers from pollution, habitat from destruction, wildlife from extinction. The #PlanningBill sets a new tone aiming for nature recovery & development.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
Thread/Yesterday’s Impact Assessment Report lays bare the indefensible logic pushing Government’s #PlanningBill forward:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Thread/Yesterday’s Impact Assessment Report lays bare the indefensible logic pushing Government’s #PlanningBill forward:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Here's our #PlanningBill Second Reading briefing to go with the blog: wcl.org.uk/docs/Plannin...
We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.
We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.
March 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's our #PlanningBill Second Reading briefing to go with the blog: wcl.org.uk/docs/Plannin...
We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.
We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.
We have prepared a briefing for members of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk outlining the problems with the #PlanningBill and the solutions cdn.bats.org.uk/uploads/pdf/...
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We have prepared a briefing for members of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk outlining the problems with the #PlanningBill and the solutions cdn.bats.org.uk/uploads/pdf/...
Nature is under threat! The UK Planning Bill could silence communities & fast-track destructive development. 🏞️ We must protect wildlife, green spaces & our right to be heard. 📢
Sign the petition NOW 👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign the petition NOW 👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nature is under threat! The UK Planning Bill could silence communities & fast-track destructive development. 🏞️ We must protect wildlife, green spaces & our right to be heard. 📢
Sign the petition NOW 👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
Sign the petition NOW 👉 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
"Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns and then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture and music." @ruthtingay.bsky.social on threats to wildlife
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thread/ As a community of nature lovers, we've fought long and hard for the current environmental protections that protect the UK's amazing wildlife 🦋
Yet right now, at this critical moment, Government's #PlanningBill risks tearing them up, accelerating the disastrous decline of our nature world
Yet right now, at this critical moment, Government's #PlanningBill risks tearing them up, accelerating the disastrous decline of our nature world
May 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thread/ As a community of nature lovers, we've fought long and hard for the current environmental protections that protect the UK's amazing wildlife 🦋
Yet right now, at this critical moment, Government's #PlanningBill risks tearing them up, accelerating the disastrous decline of our nature world
Yet right now, at this critical moment, Government's #PlanningBill risks tearing them up, accelerating the disastrous decline of our nature world
1 in 6 species are now at risk of extinction in the UK
We must use the #PlanningBill to turn the tide of decline
We need bold leadership, collaboration & smart planning for a future where nature, climate, people & economy thrive together
Take action today > action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
We must use the #PlanningBill to turn the tide of decline
We need bold leadership, collaboration & smart planning for a future where nature, climate, people & economy thrive together
Take action today > action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
1 in 6 species are now at risk of extinction in the UK
We must use the #PlanningBill to turn the tide of decline
We need bold leadership, collaboration & smart planning for a future where nature, climate, people & economy thrive together
Take action today > action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
We must use the #PlanningBill to turn the tide of decline
We need bold leadership, collaboration & smart planning for a future where nature, climate, people & economy thrive together
Take action today > action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...