Environmental Delivery Plans
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to part three of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, whether environmental delivery plans will be applied in a modular way, with species considered on a case-by-case basis.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
Environmental Delivery Plans will only be put in place where Natural England and the Secretary of State are confident that conservation measures will be sufficient to outweigh the negative impact of development.
Where this is not the case, existing environmental obligations, including those arising under the Habitats Regulations, will remain in place.
We are working with Natural England to explore which species might benefit from strategic approaches.
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