Ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

23rd April 2025

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) is making its way through Parliament - and we urgently need your help to protect bats and other wildlife. Please see below why we are extremely worried about PIB.

While it may feel like the bill is inevitable, there’s still time to make a difference. By contacting your MP today, you can help ensure key wildlife protections aren’t swept aside in the name of ‘streamlining’ planning.

We've prepared a briefing and a set of five proposed amendments - including two new amendments BCT has developed that still need an MP to officially table them.

What you can do right now

Download our policy briefing and amendment list (linked below).

Email your MP, asking them to support all the amendments and table Amendments 1 and 5. Please let us know you have done this by emailing: advocacy@bats.org.uk

Act as soon as possible – this bill is already being debated and the window for amendments will close soon.

Even if amendments aren’t passed, raising these issues really matters. It puts pressure on decision-makers and makes your voice - and bats' - impossible to ignore.

Download the PIB Briefing and Amendments PDF

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Ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Suggested message to your MP

Here’s a simple message you can copy and paste - or personalise if you’d like:

Dear [MP’s name],

I’m writing as your constituent to ask you to support vital changes to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament.

This Bill will have a huge impact on already vulnerable UK wildlife, especially bats, and precious habitats whose legal protections will be undermined.

I’ve attached a briefing and proposed amendments developed by the Bat Conservation Trust and others. All of these amendments need your support. In particular, I urge you to table and support Amendments 1 and 5, which have not yet been tabled so far but are essential to safeguarding biodiversity. Please let me know if you have done this.

Thank you for your time, and for considering the importance of protecting our natural heritage.

Best regards,
[Your name]
[Your address / postcode]

Why we’re worried about PIB

PIB will have devastating effects on protected habitats and species, undermining years of conservation progress. It removes key safeguards in the planning system, all while the government has been using misleading claims - like blaming bats for delays to HS2 - to justify deregulation.

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