Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 40393
Environmental Delivery Plans
Tabled: 21 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025
Named DayQuestion
Chris Hinchliff
Labour — North East Hertfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Environmental Development Plans proposed in Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will be required to follow the mitigation hierarchy.
Answer
Matthew PennycookEnvironmental Development Plans will provide the flexibility to diverge from project-by-project mitigation and a restrictive application of the mitigation hierarchy. However, this will only be where Natural England consider that this would deliver better ...
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