The Planning and Infrastructure Bill: A New Era for Ecology… or the End of Site-Specific Surveys?

📢 The UK’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (published today March 11th) introduces a radical shift in environmental regulation, one that could fundamentally change how ecological consultants like us operate. I have spent most of the afternoon reading, re-reading, looking at responses online AND questioning Chat GPT (as it is smarter than me and I …