by Donna Popplewell | Feb 25, 2020 | Newsletters
The withdrawal from the European Union is due to officially occur at the end of January. We are often asked how this will affect the requirement for impacts to protected species from proposed developments to be identified and mitigated. Domestic legislation e.g. the...
by Donna Popplewell | Jan 31, 2020 | Newsletters
The Environment Bill has been introduced to the House of Commons today for the first reading. This is where the Bill is formally introduced and ordered to be printed, there is no formal debate at this stage. The next stage will be a second reading in the House of...
by Katie Bott | Dec 17, 2019 | Newsletters
The Government announced its intention that Biodiversity Net Gain would be a mandatory requirement in their 25 year plan, released on the 13th of March 2019. The principle is to ensure that residential and infrastructure developments deliver measurable ecological...
by Donna Popplewell | Nov 1, 2019 | Newsletters
The Environment Bill received the second reading in the House of Commons on 28th October 2019. The revised Bill was introduced to parliament two weeks ago. Criticisms included the absence of provisions for non-regression from existing environmental protection,...
by Donna Popplewell | Dec 17, 2018 | Newsletters
The Defra 25 year environment plan sets out the intention to set gold standards in protecting and growing natural capital and to be a worldwide leader in using this approach as a tool in decision making. This is intended to feed into the Government’s objective of...
