Broken promises: what happens to mitigation commitments after developers have left?

Permission to build 450 homes on a former colliery just outside Nottingham was granted to a developer in 2014 despite the land being designated as a local wildlife site for its plants, butterflies and breeding birds that included little ringed plovers. “With this permission came a long list of ecological mitigation measures,” says Janice Bradley, head of conservation for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.