News

Many enviornmental groups calling for 'Section 3' of this Bill to be dropped because thay say it will allow developers to wreck key wildlife sites by paying into a fund that may well not be spent to rectify the specific damage they cause.. 

See also: 

“ The Government’s own environmental watchdog, the Office for Environmental Protection has called the Bill an environmental regression “ https://www.theoep.org.uk/report/oep-gives-advice-government-planning-and-infrastructure-bill

And https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/22/wildlife-charities-urge-labour-to-scrap-licence-to-kill-nature-in-planning-bill

Here’s a summary of the Bill: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/guide-to-the-planning-and-infrastructure-bill – Section 3 is on wildlife. 

The process of creating the Climate Change Action Plan for Reading 2025-2030 is underway.

a second survey seeking views from everyone about proposed actions is available until November 10th. Please give your views.

at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJKQ2MT

You can read more about the process so far on Readingcan.org.uk