A councillor has voiced concerns about plans to spend large sums of money creating Northumberland's first biodiversity net gain site on a former surface mine.
Net gain sites were introduced in the Government's landmark environment bill, and require developers and planners to create habits that can increase biodiversity by a net gain of 10% in and around developments.
The policy is due to come into force in autumn 2023, but due to the sheer size of the planned Britishvolt gigafactory - said to be "one of the biggest buildings in the world, ever" - Northumberland County Council planners chose to impose the condition on the company.
