More than 100 firms lobby Sunak for new climate change legal duty in planning system

2023-06-15T11:40:00

Lack of integration of climate goals into planning is creating delays, Sunak warned

More than a hundred built environment businesses have written to Rishi Sunak and three other senior ministers to call for a new climate change duty for planning decisions.

The letter, co-ordinated by the United Kingdom Green Building Council (UKGBC), calls for a new legal duty to be included in the Levelling up and Regeneration Bill, which is currently going through parliament.

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