A question on #EnvironmentalDeliveryPlans tabled by Chris Hinchliff on 21-03-2025 has been answered by Matthew Pennycook.

Heading: Environmental Delivery Plans
Question ID: 1787410
UIN: 40393
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-21
Asking Member ID: 5244
Asking Member display name: Chris Hinchliff
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Chris Hinchliff
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Environmental Development Plans proposed in Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will be required to follow the mitigation hierarchy.
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Date answered: 2025-04-02
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4520
Answering Member display name: Matthew Pennycook
Answering Member handle: mtpennycook
Answering Member Twitter reference: @mtpennycook
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Answer text: Environmental Development Plans will provide the flexibility to diverge from project-by-project mitigation and a restrictive application of the mitigation hierarchy. However, this will only be where Natural England consider that this would deliver better ...
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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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