Chair: Rebecca Pullinger, The Woodland Trust
Vice Chair: Carl Bunnage, RSPB
Link: Emma Clarke, Policy and Information Coordinator
Link’s Land Use Planning Group have developed proposals on how the planning system can deliver for nature, climate and people. Proposed changes to the planning system offer an opportunity to put the environment at the heart of the planning system. The group's briefing on environmental planning outlines five key principles and policies to implement those principles to ensure land use planning delivers good environmental outcomes. With a new Planning Bill expected in the latter half of this year, the Land Use Planning Group will continue to highlight how planning can make a positive contribution to nature's recovery, rather than perpetuating the sustained habitat loss seen over recent decades. Link is also a part of the 'Better planning coalition' in collaboration with 17 other organisations from across the nature, housing, transport and heritage sectors and will advocate for this coalition's new vision for planning. Link's priorities for the Planning Bill can be found here. Our most recent briefing on how the planning system can deliver better for nature, climate and people can be found here.
The LUPG continues to advocate for our proposals on SEA and EIA, as set out in this briefing on success criteria and this briefing on a new framework for environmental assessment, as the Government indicated its intention to review these processes as a part of the wider planning reforms.
Recently the Land Use Planning Group hosted a workshop on environmental data on 8 June with a wide range of stakeholders. The outcomes of the discussion at this workshop will inform forthcoming policy proposals for Government to improve environmental information and information infrastructure to support environmental policies and land use planning.
For further information, contact Emma Clarke, Link's Policy and Information Coordinator.
Last updated: 3 December 2021
