Environmental Delivery Plans: Eutrophication
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the first tranche of Environmental Delivery Plans on nutrient pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries.
Answered by Mary Creagh
The first tranche of Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs) will cover nutrient pollution, delivering on this government's commitment to unblock homes affected by nutrient neutrality.
While still under development, conservation measures within these EDPs will be designed to improve conditions at protected freshwater habitats and estuaries affected by excess nutrients.
Under the requirements of the Overall Improvement Test, the nutrient pollution reductions or removals secured within each EDP must be greater than the additional pollution arising from development in scope of each EDP.
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