Member

Amendment 354, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Roborough, would add any river or stream to the definition of a protected site for the purpose of the nature restoration fund. The nature restoration fund has been developed to provide an alternative route to discharging existing statutory environmental obligations that would otherwise be required of developers in relation to protected sites. It will facilitate a strategic approach to discharging those existing obligations, but will apply only where existing legal obligations are in place and where a feature is already designated as part of a protected site under the relevant legislation.