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Biodiversity net gain is real - what you need to know
After a couple of delays, the government has finally implemented legislation that makes biodiversity net gain (BNG) mandatory from 12 February 2024 for larger permissions and 2 April 2024 for smaller ones. What do you need to know? What does biodiversity net gain mean? It means that every planning application made from that date will have to ensure that the environment will be improved by at least 10% more than the losses that the development will cause.
High biodiversity credit price sets the scene for a planning revolution
At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications? From November this year – the precise date is still to be announced – or spring next year for smaller projects, it will become compulsory for all but the smallest planning applications to promise to provide at least 10% biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Why was the legal challenge against Bristol Airport expansion unsuccessful?
A challenge by pressure group Bristol Airport Action Network Co-ordinating Committee to the decision by the secretary of state for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities to allow Bristol Airport to increase its passenger cap from 10M to 12M per year has been unsuccessful.
First electronic-only DCO application made | Lexology
United Kingdom
April 26 2019 Today’s entry reports on the first Development Consent Order application not to be submitted in hard copy. On 23 April, Highways England made its latest application for a DCO, for the A38 Derby Junctions project, to improve three junctions on the A38 to the west of the centre of Derby. Instead of delivering a truckload of application documents to the Planning Inspectorate in Bristol, it was a matter of dropping a few USBs off that would fit into a small envelope.
A DCO grant and a withdrawal | Lexology
United Kingdom
February 22 2019 Today’s entry reports on the latest decision on a Development Consent Order and an application that has been withdrawn. You win some On Wednesday the Secretary of State for Transport granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for an extension to the port of Tilbury in Essex known as Tilbury2. It is exactly five months since the last DCO was granted, quite a gap, reflecting the drought of applications 18 months ago.
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