Angela Rayner Says Newts Can't Be More Protected Than People Who Need Housing

[webbo3]

https://news.sky.com/story/angela-rayner-says-newts-cant-be-more-protected-than-people-who-need-housing-13269419

\\Wildlife from newts to bats have held up planning decisions over the years, and the Labour government has said enough is enough as it seeks to get Britain building over the course of this parliament.//

She would need to change lots of laws and isn't this going against Ed millibands green policies

[albaqwerty]

I'm probably wrong, but don't newts live on/in areas that humans wouldn't particularly fancy?

[jackthehat]

Newts need to be suitably and carefully rehomed if releasing areas of their existing habitat will provide much needed land for housing.

Also farcical situations like this need to be addressed;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14164995/Couple-building-new-500k-house-told-demolish-home-build-EXTENSION-ridiuclous-council-rule.html

 

[Togo]

I though she was quite fond of newts. She looks and sound as if she has regular drinking sessions with them. 

[curlyfries81]

^^ Haha, brilliant 👏 

[gulliver1]

Togo 13.07 Think the Newt drinking sessions were  made famous by Boris and his partgate Cronies.

[Canary42]

There are lots of areas which can be used (e.g. brown sites) where the relentless destruction of nature can be avoided.  Extinction of species is nothing to be proud of.

[Rosetta]

Well said canary

[ToraToraTora]

TBF I think pound shop barbie has a point. We do go overboard a bit on protecting wildlife.

[El73]

What a real@#£%&she is❗️All wildlife is precious. Man is destroying the environment's animals etc., on a daily basis. The sooner she and the rest of the worst government in history are gone the better.

[Maydup]

There's hardly any protection of wildlife as it it! We have vast sways of the countryside across the UK being given up for modern housing estates. The endless protection of newts and bats is a myth created by the tabloids, more associated with road building: very rarely is their habitat suitable for housing anyway. 

[webbo3]

She'll need an act of parliament and a change in the law

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

https://www.bats.org.uk/advice/bats-and-the-law

Great crested newts are a European protected species. The animals and their eggs, breeding sites and resting places are protected by law.

 

[Old_Geezer]

Well the party is determined to run roughshod over local councils in order to build build build, so no doubt nothing must stand in their way. They reside over a population boom, driven mainly by immigrants from other cultures/ideas and their subsequent generations, and all need homes. Not that they will be able to keep up with the influx they are welcoming from across the Channel.

[davebro3]

It's a damned shame if we won't prioritise the welfare of endangered animals over accommodation for unwanted humans.

Labour savages.

[jackthehat]

///"We can't have a situation where newts are more protected than people who desperately need housing," she said.

"What we need is a process which says 'protect nature and wildlife, but not at the expense of us building the houses'.

"We could do both."///

It seems sensible enough to me; naturally, with the caveat that all suggested figures are completely unattainable, in any case.

[jourdain2]

Well, she's just lost the Green and Lib Dem votes - and a lot of others, including from her own party.

Newts are important, all wildlife is - to a growing extent.  Developments can be designed to accommodate this, but it takes time and money. E.G. a shopping complex on the york ring-road was built despite being a haven for a certainsort of newt.  The answer took a little time and the newts had a newhabitat discovered/created and were all collected up and removed.  All worked perfectly.  There are 'newt' imprints in a lot of the paving slabs.

If the population were smaller (dare I mention illegal immigrants?) then newts etc. would be safer.  I know what I'd rather have.

[webbo3]

Angela Rayner "we need more housing"

https://ibb.co/NxnY08q

[tomus42]

//Angela Rayner Says Newts Can't Be More Protected Than People Who Need Housing//

If I'm reading it right this sounds like bad news for the newts.

[jourdain2]

Thank you for BA, webbo.