The Bat Advice Service (BAS) – Reforming Natural England’s advice for householders 

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By Matt Heard, National Delivery Director In this blog we explain how we are reforming the Bat Advice Service, the free support available to householders and places of worship who have bat roosts in their buildings. We cover what the current …

Greener, Faster, Better: How Partnership Working is Streamlining Development on the Lower Thames Crossing

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By Marian Spain, CEO of Natural England It’s not often that a major infrastructure project is associated with being green, but recently I visited a project which aims to be ‘Britain’s greenest road’. This is a bold claim but one …

Welcoming the Corry Review — Nature recovery and sustainable growth through regulatory reform 

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The Corry Review was set up by Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, in October last year to examine whether the inherited regulatory landscape is fit for purpose and to develop recommendations to ensure that regulation across the Department is …