Planning advice
With ever-increasing development pressures across Berks, Bucks and Oxon, we have to ensure that wildlife and ecological networks are fully considered within the planning system.
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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.
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…