Sussex MPs urged to ‘stand up for nature’ ahead of critical votes

CPRE Sussex says amendments to the Planning Infrastructure Bill are critical to safeguard local democratic accountability and protect wildlife and wild places.

A Sussex charity has written to MPs asking them to accept amendments and mitigate the ‘most misguided elements’ of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

CPRE Sussex is backing four amendments to the Bill put forward in the House of Lords.

The proposed changes are critical to safeguard local democratic accountability, create sustainable places for people to live, stop developers destroying wild places and protect our globally-important chalk stream habitats.

The government’s original bill strips away critical protections for nature and local people’s ability to shape the places where they live.

It tips the balance of the planning system decisively in favour of major developers without doing anything to tackle the crisis in housing affordability that has blighted Sussex and the country.

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