Recommendation 137

It is clear that a coherent plan from central government, which balances the trade-offs between housing and infrastructure development, protecting and improving the environment, and ensuring food security, is a matter of urgency. Beyond this vacuum at a strategic level, we have also identified ways in which the implementation of regulations is having unintended consequences or leading to poorer outcomes for both developers and the environment. In this chapter we consider the structure of mitigation schemes in more detail, explore the information required alongside a planning application and address specific challenges for brownfield development. The function of mitigation schemes