We wanted to take our time to analyse the changes the Government has made to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Here's my take: The Bill remains a step in the right direction towards getting Britain building again. Replacing the broken status quo of site by site protections that delivered bat tunnels and fish discos with a more strategic approach to environmental recovery through Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs) is a good thing. It is reassuring that they remain part of the bill. *However* even before these amendments there was a risk that EDPs would be hard to implement. The new amendments will make EDPs harder, slower, and more expensive to prepare. Opportunities for legal challenge will increase. More often than not infrastructure projects won't be covered and will have to fall back on an unreformed status quo. With Natural England in charge of delivery without direct ministerial oversight, I remain concerned that the Bill will fail to consign the bat tunnels and fish discos to history. The Bill should have been a watershed moment for unleashing growth across Britain, but these amendments widen the cracks in the central pillar of the Government’s growth strategy.