Habitats regulations assessment (HRA) guidance

Publication Year

2025

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on carrying out a habitats regulations assessment (HRA) for a project. Covers: duty to undertake appropriate assessment (AA), the HRA process, HRA stage 1: screening, HRA stage 2: appropriate assessment (AA), HRA stages 3 and 4: assessment of alternatives and consideration of Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest (IROPI), HRA in decision making and relevant legislation.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.wales/habitats-regulations-assessment-hra-guidance 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: 4 December 2025.

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