Reptiles: advice for making planning decisions

Publication Year

2023

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises standing advice for protected species. Provides advice for local authorities on assessing planning applications where there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.

Document History

Last updated: 25 October 2023 - Updated because of new requirements for protected species mitigation licences for animals and plants in schedule 5 and schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (brought in by the Environment Act 2021). Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/reptiles-advice-for-making-planning-decisions 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: 14 January 2022.

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