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Labour risks 'bulldozing' Britain's ancient woods and trees in housing blitz

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Labour is set to “bulldoze” vital environmental protections which could put Britain’s ancient woods and trees in line for the chopping block, experts have warned. Nature groups, such as the Woodland Trust, have slammed the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill which is making its way through Parliament.

The bill allows housebuilders to pay into a nature restoration fund to improve habitats on another site, which could be anywhere in the country, rather than avoiding disturbance to nature where they are building. Darren Moorcroft, CEO of the Woodland Trust, said: “As it stands, the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to bulldoze most of the existing environmental protections the public have fought for over the past fifty years and put our nation’s irreplaceable ancient woods and trees in line for the chopping block.

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“Instead of requiring developers to avoid destroying important habitats, like ancient trees and woodlands, incorporating them into their designs or working around them wherever possible.

“The new Bill would move us to a system where any developer with deep enough pockets could be given a free pass to destroy a 500-year-old tree, as long as they pay into a fund that helps nature elsewhere. Most school children could tell you that nature doesn’t work that way.”

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Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, warned green watchdog the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP).

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The Government has set out proposals to cut red tape and for planning decisions to be shifted away from councillors and towards expert officers as part of efforts to meet Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes by 2029-30.

A government spokesman said: “This Government inherited a failed system that blocks homes, infrastructure, economic growth and does nothing for nature’s recovery.

“The Nature Restoration Fund will secure lasting improvements for nature and help fix the failed status quo. We note the support of the Office for Environmental Protection for the intentions behind our reforms and will carefully consider their advice.”

By Darren Moorcroft, CEO of the Woodland Trust

Bird song. Leaves rustling in the breeze. These sounds survive in our towns and cities because, as a fiercely nature-loving nation, we have ensured we have laws to protect them. Right now, they are under serious threat.

As it stands, the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to bulldoze most of the existing environmental protections the public have fought for over the past fifty years and put our nation’s irreplaceable ancient woods and trees in line for the chopping block.

Instead of requiring developers to avoid destroying important habitats, like ancient trees and woodlands, incorporating them into their designs or working around them wherever possible.

The new Bill would move us to a system where any developer with deep enough pockets could be given a free pass to destroy a 500-year-old tree, as long as they pay into a fund that helps nature elsewhere. Most school children could tell you that nature doesn’t work that way. An ancient tree provides habitats for many hundreds of species and once it’s gone, they, too, are gone forever.

New housing is not the problem here. Our children and their children need places to live and we must help provide that. The problem is if we allow housing to be built in a way that strips our country of all its rich, green spaces we will force our communities to be stuck living in grey, nature-poor places, which science has shown is terrible for our health and wellbeing.

The national outcry over the felling of the Whitewebbs Oak and Sycamore Gap trees show how much our old trees and historic woodlands are part of our national identity. The government must listen to the British public and change its Bill to protect our priceless trees and woodlands, before irreversible damage is done to our towns, cities and landscapes.

To sign the Woodland Trust’s petition calling on Government to amend the Bill, visit this page.

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