Holly Gray, BBOWT's Planning and Policy Officer, celebrates a win for local chalk streams and how it could encourage more councils to protect them too

Holly Gray explains why the recommendations could turn the nature crisis into a catastrophe

Despite valiant efforts by nature champions in the House of Lords, last night saw the Government bulldoze the wildlife-harming Planning & Infrastructure Bill through its last remaining hurdles…

In the next in our series, Joe Humpage chats to Val Siddiqui, BBOWT Volunteer and Wildlife Ambassador about her campaigning for nature

As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill goes through Parliament, Policy Assistant, Joe Humpage asks what evidence there is that the Nature Restoration Fund will work

The Government’s immediate suspension of nature-friendly farming schemes and the risk of spending cuts to Defra’s farming budget threatens to derail the agricultural transition. Our senior land…

Planning reforms and a strategic approach to mitigation delivery could speed up planning and help restore nature, but proposed reforms don’t. Here's why.

A large proportion of the public sees nature as fundamental to economic growth – and so the recent rhetoric from the UK Chancellor seems off-kilter. Public affairs officer, Joseph Keegan, says…

Policy assistant, Joe Humpage considers the implications for nature's recovery of the new house building targets

There are problems in the planning system that the Government needs to address, but they should do so without reverting to the age-old cheap shot of blaming newts and NIMBYs and taking power away…