Environment
These regulations aim to promote sustainable development and protect the environment.
You can find all 278 regulations that relate to environment here [opens in new window].
For ease of commenting we have broken these regulations into the following seven areas:
Planning decisions in favour of sustainable development? Is your stress on sustainable or development, I wonder? The potential for destruction of rural areas is huge under these misguided proposals. Urban regeneration is far more important to focus on, injecting new vitality into our town and city centres, making derelict brownfield sites great places to live. Helping people to live close to where they work, thus reducing carbon emissions. This is surely sustainable development as well as good for society. The natural environment needs protection. The countryside at the moment helps to cope with the mess we currently make – wetlands act to purify our waters, upland peat helps lock in carbon, woodlands help to intercept rainfall, otherwise destined for the recently built upon flood plains. For once – just once I implore you to stop and think. We have only one chance with the natural environment, so don’t ruin it. Act for us, for our children and most importantly for biodiversity.Comment Tags: biodiversity, development, urban regeneration, wildlife
Protection of the natural world is as important now as ever. Please, do not cut any protection for wildlife and biodiversity.Comment Tags: biodiversity, wildlife
I am very concerned about any proposed removal of protection for wildlife and biodiversity. Our existing legislation has only been arrived at after much work and effort over many years, and after exhaustive debate by all stakeholders to ensure that the balance of protection versus the needs of business and the economy is about right. It would therefore be inappropriate, as well as unnecessary, to remove this protection for reasons of short term expediency at a time when our wildlife is increasingly threatened by matters outside legislative control (such as global warming). Protection of wildlife and biodiversity requires long term security from threat of development and economic activity (including agriculture and fishing), and if anything protection measures need to be enhanced rather than reduced in order to redress some of the existing threats from incremental impacts.Comment Tags: wildlife
Legislation to protect nature and the environment is not red tape – it is vital to the protection of our landscapes and wildlife. Before this protection was in place, our natural environment was seriously degraded by over exploitation and badly planned development. Even with it, and with the work of government agencies and organisations such as the RSPB, we still have a lot of work to do to ensure we hand a healthy environment on to our children. We are part of nature – we need a healthy natural environment for our own health and well being. It might make sense to bring different pieces of legislation together and simplify them but we must keep them.Comment Tags: biodiversity, environment, wildlife
Both the Wildlife and Countryside Acts and amendments, and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Actsare vital in this overcrowded island and must be retained infull, regardless of any red tape that might be involved.Comment Tags: wildlife
As a recent graduate ecologist I have kept up to date with Environmental, Landscape and Conservation legislation, and in my oppinion These pieces of legislation are essential to protect Britains more wild places for not only wild animal and plant species, but also for human enjoyment. In short the legislation should be left as it is.Comment Tags: Legislation, wildlife
The proposal to ban this bit of red tape can only be improved by dropping the proposal fast. The countryside and its wildlife are vital to the people of Britain and to repeal the Wildlife and Countryside Act would grant licence to housing developments on green belt, to grant licence to gamekeepers to kill raptors, and badger baiters to be beyond the law, and to destroy protection to SSSIs and AONBs. This Act must be preserved at all costs.Comment Tags: AONBs, countryside, protect, SSSIs, wildlife