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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

The system is now run on mythologies rather than evidence, according to those involved. That is when you get some of these high-profile cases, such as demands for acres of land to be flooded to create salt marshes at Hinkley Point C in lieu of an acoustic fish deterrent. The many challenges we are seeing across the offshore wind sector and other nationally significant projects would not arise if the SNCBs were science led.

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