Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 26
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The Planning and Infrastructure Act is a wide-ranging reform of the planning system, intended to...
Conclusion
The Planning and Infrastructure Act is a wide-ranging reform of the planning system, intended to accelerate housing delivery and remove barriers to infrastructure development across England. The Act introduces the Nature Restoration Levy, a mechanism which allows developers pay into to the Nature Restoration Fund to discharge their environmental obligations when building, housing and infrastructure developments affect protected sites or species.70 This is an optional fund: developers can choose to do site-specific environmental mitigation on their development.71