# Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025, Paragraph 2: Protected sites: SSSIs

Extent: E+W

(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 an SSSI, 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—
(a) a determination by Natural England on whether to give consent (and if so on what terms) under section 28E of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or withdraw or modify any such consent,
(b) a determination by the Secretary of State of an appeal under section 28F of that Act (appeals in connection with consents),
(c) section 28H of that Act (statutory undertakers etc: duty in relation to carrying out operations),
(d) section 28I of that Act (statutory undertakers etc: duty in relation to authorising operations), and
(e) section 28P(2) and (5A) of that Act (offences in connection with sections 28H and 28I of that Act).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/34/schedule/3/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/planning-and-infrastructure-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-2
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