Planning overhaul in England will damage nature, environmentalists warn

Any improvements would be eclipsed by damage done to nature, green groups say

Radical changes to planning rules in England will damage nature, increase air pollution and leave local people with no say on protecting urban wildlife corridors, environmental charities say.

Green organisations reacted angrily to the government's plans to sweep away current planning restrictions and adopt what one NGO said was a pervasively permissive" approach to development that would leave the environment unprotected.