{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-24", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-24.json", "legislation": "uksi/2017/592", "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2017", "path": "regulation/24", "kind": "regulation", "number": "24", "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 2", "text": "(1) Schedule 2 (thresholds for identification of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading, for “Thresholds for identification” substitute “Descriptions”.\n(3) In paragraph 1—\n(a) before the definitions of “National Park” and “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty”, insert—\n““low-risk area” has the meaning given in regulation 3B(7);”;\n(b) in the definition of “National Park” and “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty”, for “of the next definition” substitute “in the definition of “sensitive area””;\n(c) after the definition of “National Park” and “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty” insert—\n““Ramsar Convention” has the meaning given in section 37A(4) and (5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;”;\n(d) in the definition of “sensitive area”—\n(i) omit paragraph (b);\n(ii) for paragraph (h), substitute—\n“(h) a European site within the meaning of regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010;”;\n(iii) after paragraph (h), insert—\n“(i) any land in Great Britain designated under paragraph 1 of Article 2 of the Ramsar Convention for inclusion in the list of wetlands of international importance referred to in that Article;\n(j) land declared to be a national nature reserve under section 35(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;\n(k) any land which is a nature reserve within the meaning given in section 15 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.”;\n(e) omit the definition of “specified threshold”.\n(4) After paragraph 1, insert—\n“Descriptions of projects in England likely to have significant effects on the environment\n1A. (1) For the purposes of regulation 3(3), a project in England of a type, description and size specified in columns 1, 2 and 3 of each entry in the Table below, is to be treated as being likely to have, or not to have, significant effects on the environment in accordance with column 4 of the appropriate entry.\n(2) This paragraph applies subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule.\nTable\nRow\nColumn 1\nType of project\nColumn 2\nDescription of land covered, or proposed to be covered, by the project\nColumn 3\nSize of area of land covered, or proposed to be covered, by the project\nColumn 4\nLikelihood of the project having significant effects on the environment\n1\nAfforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\n2 hectares or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n2\nAfforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\nMore than 2 hectares\nLikely to have significant effects\n3\nAfforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is not a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\nArea of any size\nLikely to have significant effects\n4\nAfforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\n2 hectares or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n5\nAfforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\nMore than 2, but no more than 5, hectares\nUnlikely to have significant effects, unless written notification is given by the appropriate forestry body pursuant to regulation 3A\n6\nAfforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area and the area is a low-risk area\nMore than 5, but no more than 50, hectares\nUnlikely to have significant effects, unless written notification is given by the appropriate forestry body pursuant to regulation 3B\n7\nAfforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area and the area is a low-risk area\nMore than 50 hectares\nLikely to have significant effects\n8\nAfforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area and the area is not a low-risk area\nMore than 5 hectares\nLikely to have significant effects\n9\nDeforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\n0.5 hectares or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n10\nDeforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\nMore than 0.5 hectares\nLikely to have significant effects\n11\nDeforestation\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area which is not a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\nArea of any size\nLikely to have significant effects\n12\nDeforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\n1 hectare or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n13\nDeforestation\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\nMore than 1 hectare\nLikely to have significant effects\n14\nForest road works\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area\nArea of any size\nLikely to have significant effects\n15\nForest road works\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\n1 hectare or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n16\nForest road works\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\nMore than 1 hectare\nLikely to have significant effects\n17\nForest quarry works\nThe land, or part of the land, is in a sensitive area\nArea of any size\nLikely to have significant effects\n18\nForest quarry works\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\n1 hectare or less\nUnlikely to have significant effects\n19\nForest quarry works\nNo part of the land is in a sensitive area\nMore than 1 hectare\nLikely to have significant effects.\n”\n(5) In paragraph 2—\n(a) in the heading, after “Thresholds”, insert “for identification of projects in Wales likely to have significant effects on the environment”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (1), after “any project”, insert “in Wales”.\n(6) In paragraph 3, for sub-paragraph (1), substitute—\n“(1) Where the project under consideration is an extending project—\n(a) the areas specified in Column 3 of the Table in paragraph 1A, and\n(b) the thresholds specified in Columns 2 and 3 of the Table in paragraph 2,\nshall not apply, and the threshold or areas applicable for that project for the purposes of regulation 3(3) shall be instead such balance (if any), in hectares, of the area specified in Column 3 or, as the case may be, Columns 2 and 3, in those Tables opposite the entry in Column 1 for that type of project as remains after deduction of the accumulated material past project area.”.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "1981 c. 69. Section 37A was inserted by section 77 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "Regulation 8 was amended by S.I. 2012/1927." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "Section 35(1) was amended by paragraph 85 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "Section 15 was substituted by paragraph 12 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006." } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/592/regulation/24", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:03.171982+00:00" }, "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0", "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }