Conservationists\u2019 mounting concern with the Government\u2019s new growth agenda shows no sign of abating despite reassurances that its proposed liberalisation of planning and regulatory regimes will not affect areas protected for nature.<\/p>\n

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Government documentation for local authorities who want to set up IZs suggested that they could consider locating these zones in SACs, SPAs, national parks and other protected areas, though the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has repeatedly denied this.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe expression of interest form asks about whether a site is in a national park or other protected area precisely to prevent IZs being designated in these areas,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
But Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife & Countryside Link<\/a> (WCL), a coalition of wildlife conservation groups, said it was not clear what the rules would be for protected sites.<\/p>\n
And he added that the Government had set out its intention for reform of protection for SACs and SPAs \u2013\u00a0now called the national site network \u2013\u00a0to put them on the same level as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).<\/p>\n
\u201cDevelopments on or nearby the national site network that would cause significant adverse affect may not go ahead, except for imperative reasons of over-riding public interest,\u201d Benwell said. \u201cIn contrast, there is discretion for local authorities to say that developments on a SSSI can go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
On 12th October, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that \u201cWe are going to deliver economic growth in an environmentally friendly way.\u201d However, conservationists are still waiting for details of how this will abate their fears.<\/p>
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