Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 36
36
Rejected
Mandate prescriptive standards for green and blue infrastructure in all new and refurbished developments.
Recommendation
The Government should be more prescriptive on the standards of green and blue infrastructure in new developments. The Government should mandate initiatives like Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework in new and refurbished developments to seek to ensure high standards of green and blue infrastructure are applied consistently across local planning authorities. (Recommendation, Paragraph 127)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government rejects developing mandatory training or reviewing planning qualifications related to ecology and decarbonisation, stating it has no plans for such measures and that local planning authorities make their own training decisions, though it supports a wider planning capacity programme. It does not address being more prescriptive on green/blue infrastructure standards or mandating the GI Framework.
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Government Response
Rejected
HM Government · verbatim extract
Rejected
64. We have consulted on changes to planning policy for the natural environment, including a new requirement for local planning authorities to set standards for green infrastructure provision, drawing on Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework. One of the aims of the proposed policies is to bring more consistency in the way in which these matters are considered across local planning authorities.
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