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Paragraph 1 Protected sites: assessments under Part 6 of the Habitats Regulations 2017I1I2

England and Wales

(1)

Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—

(a)

an environmental feature identified in an EDP in accordance with section 61(1)(a) is a protected feature of a European site or a Ramsar site, and

(b)

a developer has committed to pay, in respect of a development, such amount of the nature restoration levy set out in a charging schedule to the EDP as applies in relation to an environmental impact of the development on that protected feature.

(2)

The environmental impact of the development on the protected feature is to be disregarded for the purposes of Part 6 of the Habitats Regulations 2017.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 3 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 118(3)

I2

Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 18.2.2026 by S.I. 2025/1370, reg. 4(1)(l)