Source · Select Committees · Built Environment Committee
Recommendation 162
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Costs can also increase owing to surveys being time sensitive and time limited.
Conclusion
Costs can also increase owing to surveys being time sensitive and time limited. Surveys of protected species like the great crested newt can only take place at certain times of year. Lands Improvement Holdings Ltd highlighted that the need to repeat surveys which had gone out of date while a project progressed through the planning system caused costs to “spiral”. 212
Government Response
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