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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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In these Regulations—

  • “the Act” means the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025,

  • “avoidance measures” are conservation measuresf1 which are intended to avoid the negative effect of the EDP development on the conservation status of an identified environmental featuref2,

  • “compensation measures” are conservation measures which are intended to compensate for the negative effect of the EDP development on the conservation status of an identified environmental feature,

  • “EDP development” means the maximum amount of development to which the EDP may apply, as specified in accordance with section 60(5) of the Act,

  • “mitigation measures” are conservation measures which are intended to mitigate the negative effect of the EDP development on the conservation status of an identified environmental feature, and

  • “negative effect of the EDP development” has the same meaning as section 65(5) of the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

“Conservation measures” is defined in section 61(3) of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34).

f2

“Environmental feature” has the meaning given in section 61 of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34).