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Sep 30, 20191 min read

A417 consultation seeking your thoughts

Highways England announced the opening of the public consultation on their proposals for the A417 Missing Link scheme last week. The...

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Sep 24, 20191 min read

Glover Review of Protected Landscapes Published

Major review calls for biggest shakeup of the running of England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty since they were...

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Aug 28, 20191 min read

Facilitation fund: Countryside Stewardship now open

It has been confirmed that there will be a new round of Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund for 2019. Funding is offered to help...

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Aug 7, 20192 min read

Great crested newt mitigation scheme expands to include Gloucestershire

Natural England last Thursday (01.08.2019) has granted nine further licences to Local Planning Authorities across the South Midlands to...

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Jul 25, 20192 min read

Government release update on Environment Bill

On 23rd July 2019, the Government released a policy statement update on the Environment Bill. You can read it here. In summary:...

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Mar 19, 20191 min read

Highways England Announce Preferred Route for A417 'Missing Link'

Highways England has announced details of its proposed road scheme to solve the problems caused by the A417 'Missing Link'. The existing...

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Government announces all development to provide biodiversity net gains

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Mar 14, 20191 min read

Government announces all development to provide biodiversity net gains

As part of the spring statement, chancellor Philip Hammond announced the government's plans to make it mandatory for all new housing and...

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Feb 22, 20191 min read

New Covenants to protect nature

A consultation on conservation covenants, voluntary agreements to protect nature, has been launched by the government today (22 February...

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Feb 11, 20191 min read

Gloucestershire Supports National LNP response to Net Gain Proposals

On 2 December the government launched a consultation to seek views on how we can improve the planning system in England to protect the...

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Jan 9, 20192 min read

2019 Year of Green Action (YoGA): Defra release partner toolkit

The Year of Green Action aims to encourage and promote events, announcements and activity that raise awareness of, and participation in,...

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Jan 7, 20191 min read

Consultation: Protecting and Enhancing England’s Trees and Woodlands

Another environmental consultation to consider this month was released by Defra on Sunday 30th December: Protecting and Enhancing...

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Jan 2, 20191 min read

Draft Indicators Framework for the 25 Year Environment Plan - Consultation

Wednesday 19th December was a big day and you'll be forgiven by being mildly distracted with the release of the draft Environment...

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Dec 21, 20181 min read

The draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill - Call for collective response

The draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill was published on December 19th as an attempt to set out how we will maintain...

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Dec 6, 20181 min read

Biodiversity Net Gain: Consultation

On 2 December the government launched a consultation to seek views on how we can improve the planning system in England to protect the...

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Sep 19, 20181 min read

Chris Packham releases 'A People's Manifesto for Wildlife'

To coincide with the People's Walk for Wildlife on Saturday 22nd September, Chris Packham, together with 17 independent wildlife experts,...

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