‘Build, baby, build’: Labour Party Conference red hats, red tape - and green nerves

The government says it wants to “streamline planning rules” to kickstart the building of three “new towns” and a new environment secretary has promised to make DEFRA a department of growth. So is nature getting squeezed out? ENDS Report’s deputy editor Tess Colley reveals her key takehomes from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool with Eco Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons.The team also spotlights an £80m unpaid tax bill rising from the notorious Walley’s Quarry landfill, PFAS’s 1,100°C kill zone and fears that national park protections are at risk of being watered down.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.