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Environmental Delivery Plans

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.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
21 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Environmental 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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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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