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Spidergran


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I have not noticed a preponderance of green issues in this forum but the following petition suggests country-wide relevance.  It asks no 10 to make it mandatory to include consideration of habitat and niches for bird and bat species within all new planning developments. 

A Stockport group of planning objectors I belonged to found that the Council need only look for signs of roosting [from the ground looking up] before cutting down perfectly healthy mature trees to make way for bricks and concrete.  They did not need to consider that a thriving bat population would have its foraging area decimated - and birds are off planners' radar altogether anyway.

  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BirdsBats/sign

The Open Spaces Society is also asking people to send letters to their candidates to get their response to the OSS 10-Point Plan.  BTW, OSS works to protect urban as well as rural spaces:  www.oss.org.uk

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Spidergran wrote:

I have not noticed a preponderance of green issues in this forum but the following petition suggests country-wide relevance.  It asks no 10 to make it mandatory to include consideration of habitat and niches for bird and bat species within all new planning developments.

Is it not already unlawful to disturb bat habitats?

 



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I am not sure what you understand by 'habitat', Hairyloon.  To me, it means living space but under present laws only roosting/nesting space is protected.  If planning officers or arboricultural inspectors cannot find tell-tale evidence of roosts/nests looking up into the trees they will clear the tree for felling. 

It is hard work to make decision-makers understand that protecting nature is protecting people/property/investments.  It is heartening that an individual started this petition because it emphasises that we are all decision-makers and can do any one of a host of actions implied by the word.


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