Extract from remaining stages (Commons) of the Environment Bill - Jan 26
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 08:21
Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire) (Con) [V]: ...I want to
focus on issues of biodiversity and housing and draw the Minister’s
attention to the new clauses in the name of my right hon. Friend
the Member for Chipping Barnet (Theresa Villiers). In North East
Bedfordshire we look to have one of the fastest rates of growth in
housing development, and it is crucially important that whatever
the level of housing—and of course those numbers need to come
down—that housing development...Request free trial
(North East
Bedfordshire) (Con) [V]: ...I want to focus on issues
of biodiversity and housing and draw the Minister’s attention to
the new clauses in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for
Chipping Barnet (). In North
East Bedfordshire we look to have one of the fastest rates of
growth in housing development, and it is crucially important that
whatever the level of housing—and of course those numbers need to
come down—that housing development takes into account the
maintenance, encouragement and resilience of the biodiversity in
our local communities. I urge the Minister to listen to
representations from the CPRE and also from the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds, based in my constituency,
about the importance of biodiversity being incorporated in
legislation when it comes to the expansion of housing developments
and new developments across the country...
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