# The Environment (Local Nature Recovery Strategies) (Procedure) Regulations 2023, Regulation 6: Local nature reserves and other areas of local importance to biodiversity


(1) A responsible authority must take reasonable steps to ascertain the location and area of every—
(a) local nature reserve; and
(b) relevant site,
wholly or partly within the strategy area.
(2) A local planning authority that receives a request made by a responsible authority in relation to its local nature recovery strategy for information which it holds relating to a local nature reserve or relevant site in the local planning authority’s area must provide that information to the responsible authority before the expiry of 28 days beginning with the day on which the request is received.
(3) But the obligation in paragraph (2) does not apply if the local planning authority has a legitimate reason why the information should not become publicly available.
(4) In this regulation—
“local nature reserve” means an area established as such under section 21(1) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949;
“local planning authority” means a person who is a local planning authority for the purposes of any provision of Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“relevant site” means a site, that is not a local nature reserve, recognised by the local planning authority in whose area the site is located as justifying protection for its value to biodiversity but which is not a national conservation site.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/341/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environment-local-nature-recovery-strategies-procedure-regulations-2023/regulation-6
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