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Natural environment
Publication Year
2024
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on protecting and enhancing the natural environment through implementing policy. Covers: agricultural land, soil and brownfield land of environmental value; green infrastructure; biodiversity, geodiversity and ecosystems; and landscape.
Document History
Last updated: 14 February 2024 - Updated paragraphs 009 and 018-021 to reflect the commencement of biodiversity net gain and publication of separate guidance on this and to reflect the introduction of a biodiversity duty. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/natural-environment and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 21 January 2016.
Publisher Information
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Now known as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) was a UK Government department with responsibility for communities throughout the UK, with local investment supporting growth, creating jobs, delivering housing, overseeing local government, planning and building safety. They were previously known as the MHCLG, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
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