CIEEM urges members to ask their MPs to support PIB amendment 40

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The Planning and Infrastructure Bill will shortly return to the House of Commons [edit: now scheduled for Thursday 13 November] — and we need MPs to vote to retain Amendment 40, which was tabled with cross-party support and passed decisively in the House of Lords by 258 votes to 139.

Amendment 40 (which was originally Amendment 130) ensures that Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs) can only be used to address diffuse and cumulative environmental impacts such as nutrient pollution, air quality and water management – where strategic action really makes a difference. Without it, the Bill risks weakening protections for legally protected habitats and species.

We are also urging MPs to support Amendment 38 (originally Amendment 94), which seeks to protect chalk streams by requiring a spatial development strategy to list chalk streams in the strategy area, outline measures to protect them from environmental harm, and impose responsibility on strategic planning authorities to protect and enhance their environments.

Please contact your local MP and ask them to support retaining Amendments 38 and 40 in the Bill. You can do this by:

  1. Copying one of the template letters below that best fits your MP (Labour, Labour in a marginal seat (see list below), or another party).
  2. Personalising the message – even a few sentences about why nature matters to you, or about local wildlife or habitats in your constituency, makes a big difference.
  3. Sending it by email or post to your MP. You can find your MP’s contact details at www.theyworkforyou.com

Download template letters (Word doc)

Together, we can help ensure that this vital amendment stays in the Bill and that our planning system supports both development and nature recovery.

Labour MPs in marginal seats:

  • Aylesbury, Laura Kyrke-Smith MP
  • Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips MP
  • Bracknell, Peter Swallow MP
  • Bradford West, Naz Shah MP
  • Cambridgeshire North West, Sam Carling MP
  • Chelsea and Fulham, Ben Coleman MP
  • Derbyshire Dales, John Whitby MP
  • Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, Alex Mayer MP
  • Earley and Woodley, Yuan Yang MP
  • Forest of Dean, Matt Bishop MP
  • Hendon, David Pinto-Duschinsky MP
  • Ilford North, Wes Streeting MP
  • Lichfield, Dave Robertson MP
  • Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East, Luke Myer MP
  • Norfolk South West, Terry Jermy MP
  • Pendle and Clitheroe, Jonathan Hinder MP
  • Peterborough, Andrew Pakes MP
  • Poole, Neil Duncan-Jordan MP
  • Portsmouth North, Amanda Martin MP
  • Redditch, Chris Bloore MP
  • Ribble Valley, Maya Ellis MP
  • Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Kevin McKenna MP
  • Somerset North, Sadik Al-Hassan MP
  • Stoke-on-Trent South, Allison Gardner MP
  • Uxbridge and Ruislip South, Danny Beales MP