🏘️ An inquiry by MPs has revealed that nature is not an obstacle to building houses, directly challenging policies seeking to undermine our biodiversity such as the proposed amendments to the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill. Stop scapegoating nature!

Parliamentary privilege stymies Judicial Review of whether the Planning and Infrastructure Bill would reduce environmental protections in law Since the courts can’t find out if the Planning and Infrastructure Bill would reduce environmental protections in law, this question is down to lawmakers – including our MP, Josh Fenton…

Here are #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill questions @joshfg.bsky.social needs to ask in HoC before it’s too late, plus a link to @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social latest email to send to MPs. Please send it to your MP. saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/p...

Beyond the classroom, the hands-on outdoor projects transforming young lives Amid a youth mental health crisis fuelled partly by technology, young people are finding meaning in gritty analogue jobs – including mucking out pigs

Feeling jaded, in particular after the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill debacle 😭 We need some #PositiveNews, and where better to find it than in this article?! Absolutely epitomises why we should all spend more time outside in nature 🌳 www.positive.news/society/yout...

Constituents gutted by Calder Valley MP’s votes against nature protection amendments to planning reform bill Gutted Calder Valley environmental groups are asking their MP Josh Fenton-Glynn to explain his vote against two crucial House of Lords’ nature protection amendments to the contentious Planning and …

Looks as if @joshfg.bsky.social has a fair amount of explaining to do - Constituents gutted by #CalderValley MP's votes against nature protection amendments to #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/c...

is anything happening outside parliament tomorrow for the Lords amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill? #planningandinfrastructurebill

Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...

BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome

The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

100% agree with @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. Low level of literacy and low level of willingness to learn or listen. The notion that nature can jog on somewhere else, or thrive in just-planted woods is either stupidity or wilful fantasy and lies.
#planningandinfrastructurebill

Email your MP. Amendment 130 would make sure the new planning systems works for, not against nature.demand they keep amendment 130 in the Bill It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.

Email your local MP now and demand that they keep amendment 130 in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have provided a handy template to structure an email to your MP below:

action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...

#planningandinfrastructurebill #fornature

⏰ It’s time for healthy homes & neighbourhoods.
📜 Lord Crisp's amendment on health improvement & health inequalities will be presented this evening on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
We hope that peers will support this vital amendment to deliver #HealthyHomesNow: www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

Lord Crisp's amendments on health improvement and health inequalities will be presented this evening on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill
Hopefully #BaronessTaylor @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and peers will support this vital amendment!
#Health #Planning

www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

How’s #Labour doing on its environment claims?

A view of the first year + a bit in power: Tues 4 Νov to #Bromley Friends of the Earth.

#aviation #biodiversity #climate #energy #planning #housing #planningandinfrastructurebill
#biodiversitynetgain #bng #rights #justice #transport #democracy

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

And #PlanningandInfrastructureBill will only worsen this nature deficit, which is doing such damage to #PublicHealth

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Seen in #HebdenBridge - only 23 more #CalderValley signatures and 800 constituents will have signed the Parliamentary Petition to #Amend #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill to #BanWindfarms on #ProtectedPeatland petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Campaigners' plea as new petition calls for wind farm ban on peatlands A NEW parliamentary petition has been launched calling for wind farms to be banned on protected peatlands.

Thanks to Keighley News for reporting this important call to amend the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill and ban #NSIP #Windfarms on protected #Peatland #irreplaceable #blanketbog www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/2558283...

🚨URGENT - Planning and Infrastructure Bill Since March, key Government figures have sought to present a false choice between nature and growth. We have been told that spiders have blocked towns, and that bats and newts ...

🌿 🚨 // Urgent - Stand up for nature // 🚨🌿

Say NO to “cash to trash nature”

Email a member of the House of Lords NOW ‼️ Easy links on Zero Hour site

#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill
www.zerohour.uk/pandibill/

The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill has been full of controversy and criticism. There is a rhetoric from the Government that nature is a barrier to development which is simply not true:
🦇Just 3% of planning appeals mention bats and newts, reducing their protections will not speed up house building.

Politicians may spin their tales but businesses recognise our reliance on nature: Reflections from the #UKBusinessandBiodiversityForum2025

(see photo carousel)
#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital

Plans to weaken Protected Landscapes Duty quietly dropped Westminster government published its list of amendments for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and there are no proposals to weaken protections for National Parks.

"Late last night Westminster published its long list of amendments for the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill... it did not contain any proposals to weaken protections for #NationalParks and #NationalLandscapes"

#Ukplanninglaws
#UKpolitics
#Environmentalprotections

www.cnp.org.uk/news/plans-t...

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill - Lords, Report Stage — Rights Community Action (Copy) Our last chance to put climate action at the heart of the Bill 21 October 2025 The planning system is vital in achieving our net zero future and in securing the climate resilience of…

...Baroness Parminter is vital to our economic success, and to the safety and survival of future generations." Our letter, signed by 14 organisations, sent to Peers in advance of Report Stage of the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill www.rightscommunityaction.co.uk/news/joint-s...

Britain’s forests are a rare treasure — vital for climate, nature and the future. Yet the Forestry Commission still lacks a clear legal duty to protect them. That must change.

#PlanningandInfrastructureBill #NatureRecovery

ITS HERE! 🎬🍿

This ‘heartwarming and urgent’ documentary about the fight to #SaveRyebankFields is now available to watch in the comfort of your own home 🛋️ 🪺
Use the QR code, or link in comments.

Filmed ahead of the
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill it foreshadows many of the issues raised by it 💚

Join us for a FREE lunchtime #webinar on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill

Our expert #policy & #ecology panel will share updates + insights

Don’t miss it! Book now: events.cieem.net/Events/Event...

#Planning #Infrastructure #Climate #Nature #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment

Petition: Stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 to Protect Nature We think the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025 threatens irreplaceable habitats, weakens environmental protections, and ignores pressures on public services. We urge the Government to withdraw it to protect nature and our communities.

As #ecologicalbreakdown unfolds, let's think more clearly about our future. Stop the #Planningandinfrastructurebill and protect #UKNature from yet more harm https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/726174

Government amendments to ‘licence to kill nature’ bill unlikely to win over Parliamentarians and environmental groups Following the first day of the House of Lords’ Planning and Infrastructure Bill Amendments Committee last week, the Government announced it was making its own amendments to the contentious, “cash t…

@chrishinchliff.bsky.social has been friendly to our campaign to amend the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill to #banWindfarmsOnProtectedPeatland. He didn't deserve suspension and the Government amendments aren't going to make the Bill ok saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/g...

Dear @dantomlinson.bsky.social, hope you can meet constituents at the #ActNowChangeForever climate and nature mass lobby today. We need constructive support of a health, nature and wellbeing economy, including maintaining environmental protections in the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill. With thanks