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Natural environment
Publication Year
2025
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: 19 February 2025 - Added new paragraphs 044 to 047 on Local Nature Recovery Strategies and updated paragraphs 009, 010 and 011. 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
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
