Extract from committee stage (Lords) (day 7) of the Environment Bill - July 12
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 08:32
Baroness Boycott (CB):...Despite letters from all the leading
conservation charities and despite agreements from the developers
to change some things, the ultimate goal has remained the same and
was indeed signed off by Robert Jenrick in February this year. They
will be digging up an area of great importance to biodiversity,
wetlands, and, of course, given that this is in the estuary,
migratory birds. This joint letter from wildlife charities, which I
have in my hands, includes the Kent...Request free trial
(CB):...Despite letters from all the leading conservation
charities and despite agreements from the developers to change some
things, the ultimate goal has remained the same and was indeed
signed off by in February this year. They will be digging up an area
of great importance to biodiversity, wetlands, and, of course,
given that this is in the estuary, migratory birds. This joint
letter from wildlife charities, which I have in my hands, includes
the Kent Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, Buglife and the CPRE in Kent. They said that the
company ought to have sought to withdraw its application and
restart the pre-application process after the site was protected.
Natural England, which named the area an SSSI, said that 40% of the
nationally important wildlife would be directly lost to this theme
park, with additional impacts likely from construction and the
operation. It also questioned the plans to compensate for the lack
of habitat, the home to breeding birds, endangered plants and
apparently more than 1,700 species of insects, by creating some
sort of protected wildlife somewhere else...
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