Rewilding law changes

[sh1kar]

A good thing?

Red tape will be removed for conservationists who want to rewild their land under a shake up of the environmental regulators, my colleague Helena Horton reports.

Rachel Reeves and environment secretary Steve Reed will remove the need for trusted partners - conservationists who have been working on nature schemes for some time - to apply to Natural England or the Environment Agency for permission to restore nature, as part of today’s push to cut red tape.

At the moment, if conservationists want to restore rivers or dig wetland areas, for example, they have to apply to multiple regulators for approval, in what can be a time-consuming and costly process.

Defra said the new plan will allow trusted nature conservation and environmental partners “to move fast on restoring nature without applying to multiple regulators for permissions.”

Jake Fiennes, director of conservation at the Holkham Estate in North Norfolk said the current system makes it far too difficult to restore the rare chalk stream running through the national nature reserve, or to dig wetland areas for the many endangered wading birds which call the estate their home.

He said:

“The Flood Risk Activity Permits are currently a disaster. Those of us helping deliver the government’s environmental targets are regulated to death while those committing freshwater ecocide do so with near impunity.

It’s an opt-in policing system that penalises compliance and desperately needs reform. Permissions and consents can be very onerous, costly, and take a long time to come through.”

A Natural England source agreed that the system needed reform. They said:

“The present regulations slow down good things as well as potentially harmful things. The fact is that our regulatory frameworks were designed to stop bad stuff happening (very important), but now we need approaches that are more about encouraging good things.”

 

[Sinistral]

A good thing?

Red tape will be removed for conservationists who want to rewild their land under a shake up of the environmental regulators, my colleague Helena Horton reports.

Rachel Reeves and environment secretary Steve Reed will remove the need for trusted partners - conservationists who have been working on nature schemes for some time - to apply to Natural England or the Environment Agency for permission to restore nature, as part of today’s push to cut red tape.

At the moment, if conservationists want to restore rivers or dig wetland areas, for example, they have to apply to multiple regulators for approval, in what can be a time-consuming and costly process.

Defra said the new plan will allow trusted nature conservation and environmental partners “to move fast on restoring nature without applying to multiple regulators for permissions.”

Jake Fiennes, director of conservation at the Holkham Estate in North Norfolk said the current system makes it far too difficult to restore the rare chalk stream running through the national nature reserve, or to dig wetland areas for the many endangered wading birds which call the estate their home.

He said:


A Natural England source agreed that the system needed reform. They said:

Ah, you're plagiarising the Guardian Live so really should acknowledge your source. I wonder why not,( approbation on here perhaps?) but have done so anyway. This is part of a broader government initiative to reduce quangos and regulation generally, so belongs in the Political Section. This has to be seen against the wider backdrop, so let's not cherrypick. huh? However I applaud your discernment, as the Telegraph dies behind its own subscription paywall.

Oil price lifted by US Houthi airstrikes and China economic hopes; Crispin Odey facing City ban and £1.8m fine – as it happened

Crude prices lifted by US-Houthi attacks, as City watchdog decides to fine Crispin Odey £1.8m and ban him from the UK financial services industry for ‘a lack of integrity’

www.theguardian.com

 

[sh1kar]

Ah, you're plagiarising the Guardian Live so should really acknowledge your source. I wonder why not,( approbation on here perhaps?) so have done so anyway. This is part of a broader government initiative to reduce quangos and regulation generally, so belongs in the Political Section. This has to be seen against the wider backdrop, so let's not cherrypick. huh? However I applaud your discernment, as the Telegraph dies behind its own subscription paywall.

Oil price lifted by US Houthi airstrikes and China economic hopes; Crispin Odey facing City ban and £1.8m fine – as it happened

Crude prices lifted by US-Houthi attacks, as City watchdog decides to fine Crispin Odey £1.8m and ban him from the UK financial services industry for ‘a lack of integrity’

www.theguardian.com

Indeed

But as with you when I posted it it became the ode story so I did a simple cut and paste. Nothing sinister...

 

[Sinistral]

Rachel Reeves tells regulators there is ‘too much bureaucracy’

Chancellor tells UK watchdogs she wants to cut down on overlapping regulation

www.theguardian.com

Perhaps not, but premature - pending publication of party political policy behind it.
Coo, that's unintentionally alliterative.

 

[Kalahari]

Ah, you're plagiarising the Guardian Live so really should acknowledge your source. I wonder why not,( approbation on here perhaps?) but have done so anyway. This is part of a broader government initiative to reduce quangos and regulation generally, so belongs in the Political Section. This has to be seen against the wider backdrop, so let's not cherrypick. huh? However I applaud your discernment, as the Telegraph dies behind its own subscription paywall.

Oil price lifted by US Houthi airstrikes and China economic hopes; Crispin Odey facing City ban and £1.8m fine – as it happened

Crude prices lifted by US-Houthi attacks, as City watchdog decides to fine Crispin Odey £1.8m and ban him from the UK financial services industry for ‘a lack of integrity’

www.theguardian.com

This from a government that has created an average of two QUANGOs a week since taking power?

David.

 

[Apthorpe]

This from a government that has created an average of two QUANGOs a week since taking power?

David.

The same bunch who spent 14 years vehemently opposing any reduction in regulation at all, calling it a "race to the bottom". I suppose they have already reached rock bottom in record time. "Things can only get better".....oh, apparently not.

 

[long_range_rob]

This from a government that has created an average of two QUANGOs a week since taking power?

David.

Create two, abolish one. Look at us saving money