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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

BIZARRE: Seemingly ambitious defra hedgerow targets actually due to typo - You Need To See This

Thérèse Coffey
Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, has admitted that ambitious figures on hedgerows revealed in January were a typographical error. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

The UK environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has disappointed campaigners after revealing that an ambitious hedgerow plan for England was in fact a typographical error.

At the end of January, environment groups were delighted when Coffey revealed the government’s Environmental Improvement Plan would include aims to plant 30,000 miles of new hedgerows a year by 2037 and 45,000 a year by 2050.

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