- Huge thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social and Baroness Freeman of Steventon for tabling amendments to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill in the Lords, trying again to get Assets of Community Value to consider 'environmental interests' as well as social and economic.Jan 29, 2026 14:28
- We've been campaigning on this as the CLT Network with @right-here.org, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social & others. It is bonkers to define ACVs in a way that's inconsistent with the way the planning system, the Green Book and other policies define and think about 'value'.
- Currently the government has said it intends to pick up environmental interests in the regulations and guidance. But it's daft not to also put it on the face of the bill. It seems to have got itself in a real muddle about what ACVs are supposed to be for.
