Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Nature Recovery
17 April 2025
Insight Hub
4 February 2025
The planning reform spotlight has been beaming down on the Nationally Significant Infrastructure (“NSIP”) regime in recent weeks, with a new Government policy paper Streamlining Infrastructure Planning published on 26 January. The Government’s ambition to decide 150 Development Consent Order (“DCO”) applications during this parliament would represent a significant achievement which the working paper acknowledges…
Read more29 February 2024
It’s been (another) year in which the Government has tried to carry out the tricky balancing act between getting more houses built and living up to its green credentials. Last year, we reported on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, which was finally enacted on 26 October 2023. In 2023 we helped clients draft amendments to…
Read more16 February 2024
On the 12 February 2024, mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (“BNG”) officially arrived! As we outlined in our last article, “Biodiversity Net Gain is a Reality: The Basics”, every grant of planning permission for a major development (unless exempt) will now be subject to a deemed condition to secure at least a 10% increase in the…
Read more24 January 2024
This is the first in what we expect will be a series of posts on Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). BNG is one of the most significant recent developments in planning law, and the government have announced that it will go live on Monday 12 February 2024. A set of regulations has been made and…
Read more14 February 2023
The Planning and Parliamentary team have had to keep up to speed with some significant cases in 2022 and, given the somewhat tumultuous political year, some changes of direction in policy and legislation, which will be following through into 2023. Cases Probably the most significant planning case to have been decided in 2022 (and therefore…
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