The environmental group claims ministers failed to carry out a strategic environmental assessment on its new planning rules
Environmental group Friends of the Earth says it is considering launching a legal challenge against the government over the recently published National Planning Policy Framework.
FoE is taking issue with the NPPF鈥檚 approach to the environment and sustainable energy and claims ministers failed to carry out a strategic environmental assessment.
The group says the new document, published earlier this week, threatens the climate and the environment, arguing it 鈥減romotes fracking, holds the door open for future coal, and makes it difficult for wind power projects to get off the ground鈥�.
FoE鈥檚 legal chief Will Rundle said the group was considering its options 鈥渢o legally challenge this failure to environmentally assess the major impacts of this new planning framework, which we think is unlawful and shows contempt for people and our planet鈥�.
The government 鈥渇ailed to carry out a 鈥榮trategic environmental assessment鈥� of the plans, leaving the public in the dark over the