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Government moves to replace developer nature responsibilities with fund payments

Peter Stonham
05 February 2025
 

The Government has tabled measures to ‘unblock much- needed infrastructure projects’, including limiting opportunities to challenge them in the courts and allowing developers to pay into a pool to mitigate environmental damage, rather than being responsible for the specific effects of their schemes.

Under current rules, infrastructure projects must secure mitigation or compensation for environmental harm to some protected sites and species before being granted planning permission,...

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