The Government should be more prescriptive on the standards of green and blue infrastructure in new developments. The Government should mandate initiatives like Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework in new and refurbished developments to seek to ensure high standards of green and blue infrastructure are applied consistently across local planning authorities. (Recommendation, Paragraph 127)

The Government should be more prescriptive on the standards of green and blue infrastructure in new developments. The Government should mandate initiatives like Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework in new and refurbished developments to seek to ensure high standards of green and blue infrastructure are applied consistently across local planning authorities. (Recommendation, Paragraph 127) Type: recommendation | Number: 36 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 111. The Government has no plans to develop mandatory training in ecology and the decarbonisation of buildings, or review current planning qualifications to ensure they adequately test knowledge of ecology and carbon literacy. As independent bodies, local planning authorities have to make decisions