Are green interests about to go to war in the next battle over planning?

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The planning system is assigned too much blame in debates about the slow pace of net zero infrastructure development, argues Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers

There's no solution to the climate crisis without tackling the nature crisis. They are interdependent. Lots of blogs and speeches start like that, and it is true. But that does not mean that there...

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