Neighbourhood Plans: Planning Decisions - 9th July 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Neighbourhood Plans: Planning Decisions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-07-09/debates/BBBF0B52-3DAA-47A0-980D-4FC7C7BBC70B/NeighbourhoodPlansPlanningDecisions

10:22 John Milne (Liberal Democrat)

We are deeply disappointed by the Government’s lack of commitment to boost nature’s recovery and tackle climate change in the planning process, despite promising in their manifesto that changes to the planning system would create places that increased climate resilience and promoted nature recovery. Neighbourhood plans have played a particularly effective role in identifying and protecting existing green spaces, which often have unclear legal status—lost in the mists of time—and are now under threat from the rapacious development industry.

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