Our response to the Government's planning reforms 👇 It’s right that we protect the built cathedrals for future generations, and it's equally important to do so for our natural cathedrals. We can have both #NatureRecovery and high-quality sustainable development. Indeed, the government previously said that, and it must not back down on its promises. But that requires coherent, properly resourced long-term planning—something successive Governments have failed to deliver. Reforms must protect the remaining fragments of ancient woodland and other precious habitats, not play them off against other objectives. To use the government’s own language ‘we can't afford not to’. We look forward to also hearing from the government how it plans to ‘tear down the barriers ‘to nature’s recovery'. New plans must include effective green infrastructure, such as trees and nature, on every new development. Healthy and functioning ecosystems will make our new homes more resilient to climate change and underpin a sustainable economy. Planning reform must play its part towards meeting legally binding species and habitat recovery targets and commitments to genuinely protect 30% of land by 2030. Darren Moorcroft (he/him)
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9hThe main barrier to restoring Our Life-support system for Health for All is the policy of governments to pretend that Anything that transfers wealth from the many to boost the Profit of Anyone Would Create Wealth for All - despite businesses getting subsidies for not using #TrueCosts since the 16th century.