Regulation 28 Remediation notices

(1)

If a person has carried out an uncultivated land project or a restructuring project in breach of—

(a)

regulation 5, or

(b)

regulation 10,

Natural England may serve a notice (“a remediation notice”) on the person who appears to it to be responsible.

(2)

A remediation notice may require the person—

(a)

to reinstate, to Natural England’s satisfaction, the relevant land to the condition it was in before the project was commenced, or

(b)

to take such other steps as Natural England thinks fit to return the relevant land to good environmental condition.

(3)

A remediation notice must state the period during which the remediation is to be carried out.

(4)

Natural England may at any time—

(a)

vary a remediation notice, or

(b)

withdraw a remediation notice (without affecting its power to serve another),

by serving notice to that effect on the person served with the remediation notice.

(5)

Any variation of a remediation notice under paragraph (4)(a) has effect from the date of service of the notice varying the remediation notice.

(6)

A remediation notice ceases to have effect from the date of service of a notice withdrawing it under paragraph (4)(b).