On and on it seems to go (and you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone)
Thirteen weeks after the 50,000 pages of the HS2 Environmental Statement landed on my desk I can breathe a sigh of relief as I have now submitted the Woodland Trust’s response to the consultation. The...
View ArticleHeartening interest by EAC on ancient woodland loss from HS2
This Tuesday Richard Barnes, the Woodland Trust’s Senior Conservation Advisor, presented oral evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee as part of their very welcome Inquiry into the environmental...
View ArticleIndependent committee pushes HS2 to take environmental responsibility
It’s less than 3 weeks since I gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), yet the Committee has done an excellent job to produce an authoritative report ahead of the Second Reading of...
View ArticleWoods, trees and the party conference season: final instalment
The curtain came down on the Woodland Trust’s programme of party conference fringes with a lively event at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow. Despite plenty of other fringes taking place at the same...
View ArticleBees, Trees and Infrastructure: Having it all?
Walking into the ‘Ideas Space’ lecture area at Policy Exchange Think Tank to hear Liz Truss deliver her first set piece speech on the natural environment, it struck me that it really wasn’t that long...
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