The county’s leading nature conservation charity is urging the Government to ditch proposals to weaken protection for important wildlife habitats and threatened species within the planning system…

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (SWT) is objecting to a proposed housing development which would see over 300 homes built on land that has an unusually high diversity of important species.

The county’s leading nature conservation charity says that important wildlife - including breeding birds, bats and other mammals - will be impacted if plans to erect more than 100 homes near…