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Response to Wildlife Trusts

Posted by: dluhccomms, Posted on: 17 September 2020 - Categories: Planning

There has been media coverage today of a call by the Wildlife Trusts for a new ‘wildbelt’ planning designation and their claims that our proposed planning reforms will damage nature. We disagree entirely with these claims - the government is …

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