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Coastal

Coastal habitats are found wherever the land meets the sea. With some 17,800km, the UK has one of the longest national coastlines in Europe. The coast is home to many habitats, with cliffs, rocky…

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How to make a coastal garden

Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.

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Wilder Planning

The planning system shapes the places where we live and work, and plays a vital role in determining the type and quality of landscape for future generations.
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Planning for a wilder future or planning to fail?

The planning system is broken. Not only is it failing to create the type of sustainable, healthy communities that we all need but new development continues to tear up valuable habitat and further…

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Planning and Chalk Streams

Planning can play a crucial role in protecting and improving our chalk streams. Steve Lees, an experienced independent planning consultant explains the current situation

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Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…

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Protecting our coastal birds

The Solent is one of the country’s most important locations for over-wintering birds, but they are under pressure from human activity. Learn about our work to protect these amazing species.
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The UK Government promised to protect and restore nature. But a year in, new planning laws are set to weaken environmental protections and create a 'cash to trash' system.