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Recommendation 41
41
Acknowledged
Publish equivalent guidance to Nature Scot’s on peatland, carbon-rich soils, and habitat management.
Recommendation
The Government should consider publishing an equivalent to Nature Scot’s 2023 guidance, “Advising on peatland, carbon-rich soils and priority peatland habitats in development management”. (Recommendation, Paragraph 97)
Government Response Summary
The government stated that it is actively considering the need for new guidance or decision-making tools regarding renewable energy infrastructure development on peatland, in response to the recommendation for guidance equivalent to NatureScot's.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
42. The government should consider publishing an equivalent to NatureScot’s 2023 guidance, “Advising on peatland, carbon-rich soils and priority peatland habitats in development management”. Government are actively considering the need for new guidance or decision making tools relating to the development of renewable energy infrastructure on peatland. Offshore Wind 43. The concerns that we have heard from industry about the government’s proposed new guidance on inter-array wake effects in EN-3 suggest that this may not have provided the clarity that was intended. This may especially be the case in relation to whether projects might be expected to damage their own business cases when taking “all reasonable steps to minimise” wake effects “as far as possible”. See response to