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Remove biodiversity net gain mandate from the Environment Bill

Submitted by Anthony Boland on Monday 13th September 2021

Published on Monday 20th September 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Sunday 20th March 2022

Signatures: 16

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biodiversity ~ Build ~ Damaged ~ environment ~ environment bill ~ Power ~ Re ~ Remove ~ Thousands ~ Years ~ You

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Remove biodiversity net gain mandate from the Environment Bill

Petition Details

The Government must remove the biodiversity net gain requirement from the Environment Bill, as this merely attempts to ‘incentivise’ developers to avoid the ‘most biodiverse’ sites, meaning they could build on already well-established biodiverse land in the absence of stronger protections.

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You surely cannot re-establish an environment, which has taken tens of thousands of years to develop, in a period of thirty years.

The biodiversity net gain mandate in the Environment Bill could do more damage to our biodiversity than good. I worry it puts far too much power in the hands of developers and not enough in the hands of the public.


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