New research published by Planning for Nature project team academics Dr Kiera Chapman and Prof Malcolm Tait has warned how current Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) policies are creating a "many-headed hydra" of profit-making rather than simply protecting the planet.

Published by the Journal of Political Ecology, you can read more here: https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/6186/ 

Co-authored by 'Planning for Nature' team members Dr Andy Inch and Prof Malcolm Tait, The Future for Planners was awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute's Patsy Healey Award.

Of the award, Prof Tait said: 'We are very pleased that The Future for Planners won the Patsy Healey award. In the book we sought to understand the changing contexts in which planning is done, and we are seeking to continue this in the Planning for Nature project. Renewed emphases on economic growth, and a rapidly changing policy environment are changing the ways in which nature is considered in planning, requiring us to step back and look at the bigger picture to apply these learnings to projects such as 'Planning for Nature'".