Environmental policy funding
Withdrawal or reduction of government funding for long-term environmental data collection and inadequate funding for environmental land management schemes.
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Mixed across source types and ranked by classifier confidence plus text match strength.
Committee recommendation
90match
#101 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
By way of example, the Minister for Housing and Planning, Rachel Maclean MP, sits in DLUHC which is also responsible for local government finance and policy. 137 However, the introduction of biodiversity net gain and local nature recovery strategies has given Defra an active stake in the planning process. It is responsible for providing funding to support local...
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terms: environmental, funding, policy
Committee recommendation
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#44 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Where there is a model in place for cost recovery through the planning process, the Government should provide up front funding to local planning authorities to undertake mitigation activity. This could be repaid through the creation of a local credit scheme to ensure that mitigation schemes are available to all developers.
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
80match
#143 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
It is unrealistic to expect the market to immediately provide a private sector mitigation solution for new regulatory schemes, especially where there is political uncertainty about their longevity. When new types of mitigation are required owing to advice from statutory consultees, the Government should work with Natural England to provide public sector mitigation schemes in the immediate term....
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
78match
#84 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should develop integrated plans for addressing all areas of conflict between development and environmental policies before legal backstops are reached and development is halted. These must include implementation plans and be in line with the environmental principles policy statement.
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terms: environmental, policy
Committee recommendation
78match
#41 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
When new types of mitigation are required owing to advice from statutory consultees, the Government should work with Natural England to provide public sector mitigation schemes in the immediate term. These can be closed to new applicants or become a provider of last resort when a private sector market has developed .
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
78match
#35 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
We welcome the Government taking steps to address the funding shortfall in local authority planning departments.
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
77match
#10 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
While the Committee recognises the challenges posed by a constrained budget, the Government needs to develop an effective policy with a sustained funding commitment to deliver regular monitoring of SSSIs and for each site to be monitored every six years. The monitoring should produce transparent and accessible data and the Government should also seek to make use of...
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terms: funding, policy
Committee recommendation
74match
#141 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Developers must offset the pollution caused by their scheme in total and this can be impacted by property size and on-site management methods. 188 For nutrient neutrality the performance of local wastewater treatment works is a key determinant in the amount of mitigation required. 189 Where a local planning authority develops a scheme, such as those described for...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
74match
#77 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government has acknowledged this imbalance in addressing nutrient pollution. Trudy Harrison MP, Minister for Natural Environment and Land Use told us “I absolutely sympathise and agree that it feels incredibly unfair to housebuilders.” 107 Box 4: The Netherlands’s nitrogen strategy The Netherlands has 160 Natura 2000 sites and, like all member states, is required by EU law...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
74match
#49 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
More detail should be provided on the proposed approach to monitoring and enforcing the long-term delivery of biodiversity net gain. Where local planning authorities are required to undertake ongoing monitoring, the Government should provide sufficient resources for this. The Office for Environmental Protection should have a role in ensuring local planning authorities undertake ongoing monitoring and enforcement.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#155 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should support the authorities responsible for local nature recovery strategies to ensure that they bring together information and actions to enhance the environment. Relevant authorities should develop biodiversity net gain credit schemes which support the delivery of local nature r ecovery strategies so that off-site delivery continues to benefit residents in the local area. Monitoring and...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#140 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The cost of providing mitigation varies significantly between individual schemes and across geographic areas. The Country Land and Business Association described nutrient mitigation costs as a “postcode lottery” even within local planning authorities (LPAs). 185 Examples of the charges associated with recreational impact mitigation include North Norfolk at £210.84 per net new residential and tourism accommodation dwelling and...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#138 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
As discussed in Chapter 3, when it is identified that a development proposal will have an impact on the environment, it is usually required to mitigate the impact. This is done through: on-site measures to reduce harm; payments through the section 106 process 178 ; delivering an alternative habitat or reducing pollution off site through their own means;...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#90 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should explore how mitigation schemes could finance improving existing housing stock, building on the model in Crawley. It is unlikely that this approach will provide sufficient offsetting to meet housing demand, but it should be considered a key part of the solution and a suitable route to contribute to the Government’s levelling-up mission to improve housing...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#83 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government must prioritise implementing the Integrated Plan for Water and publish the information sought by its arm’s-length bodies, including setting out the balance of priorities between farming and other sectors in addressing nutrient pollution. In doing this it should be cognisant of the experience in the Netherlands ( see Box 4).
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#79 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The UK Government’s proposed solution to this issue is the Integrated Plan for Water, which aims to “transform management of the whole water system, deliver a clean water environment for nature and people, and secure a plentiful supply of water”. 113 It seeks to take a system wide approach including aiming to reduce pollution from wastewater (legislated through...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#48 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should support the authorities responsible for local nature recovery strategies to ensure that they bring together information and actions to enhance the environment. Relevant authorities should develop biodiversity net gain credit schemes which support the delivery of local nature recovery strategies so that off -site delivery continues to benefit residents in the local area .
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
70match
#21 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should explore how mitigation schemes could finance improving existing housing stock, building on the model in Crawley. It is unlikely that this approach will provide sufficient offsetting to meet housing demand, but it should be considered a key part of the solution and a suitable route to contribute to the Government’s levelling- up mission to improve...
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terms: environmental
NAO recommendation
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Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals
• assesses the short-, medium- and long-term costs of this delivery plan to ensure that Defra and HM Treasury have a shared view of the associated costs and how these might be financed.
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terms: environmental
NAO recommendation
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Regulating to achieve environmental outcomes
Defra should do the following: a) By December 2024, as Defra complies with its statutory reporting requirements under the Environment Act, it should incorporate detailed operational plans for how it will achieve the goals of the EIP, including the role of regulation alongside other policy interventions. Defra should set out its understanding of where regulation is currently being...
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terms: environmental, policy
Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-159 - Consider funding arrangements for police services
The Inquiry heard evidence that the impact of public funding cuts fell disproportionately hard on metropolitan police services, such as Greater Manchester Police, compared with non-metropolitan services. In the event that public funding cuts are in the future considered necessary by the government, the Home Office should consider whether some funding arrangement for police services different from that...
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terms: funding
Committee recommendation
66match
#82 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
We were concerned to hear that the Government’s Integrated Plan for Water, proposed as the solution to nutrient pollution, is not yet able to deliver genuine change. The Government has shied away from taking the necessary decisions and risks failing to improve the situation in line with international commitments.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
66match
#75 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Too often, the outcome of government policies and regulations place responsibility for preventing and addressing historic pollution onto those with limited, if any, power to effect change. Balancing the social, environmental and economic benefits and costs of development is a difficult task requiring expertise, evidence, ability and genuine willingness to effect change: it is a matter for the...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#72 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should ensure that local planning authorities are prohibited from introducing biodiversity net gain requirements above the 10 per cent minimum for small sites. These sites should be exempt from following the mitigation hierarchy and immediately permitted to deliver an offsite solution.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#69 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
All public sector development mitigation schemes should prioritise provision for small developers.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
66match
#59 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should work with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to review planning and permitting requirements for brownfield land and eliminate overlap. This should include checks on how brownfield sites are assessed to ensure public sector resources are used most effectively .
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#57 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The Government should ensure that remediating brownfield sites is not disincentivised by biodiversity net gain requirements. Local planning authorities should be able to moderate biodiversity net gain requirements for sites on their brownfield registers.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#46 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
There is a preference among developers of all sizes for off-site mitigation to be managed centrally with clear and predictable costs to allow them to factor these into land value calculations. In these circumstances, the costs can be borne by a development and the outcomes provide greater benefit to the environment.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#42 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
The lack of managed credit-purchase mitigation schemes for specific pollutants or in certain areas is restricting developers’ ability to gain planning permission.
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terms: environmental
Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-143 - Consistent and sufficient LRF funding
The Home Office should consider how local resilience forums are to be funded consistently and sufficiently to enable them to do their important work.
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terms: funding
Committee recommendation
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#85 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
We welcome proposals in the Levelling- up and Regeneration Bill for the Environment Agency to review the environmental permits of plants which discharge treated effluent into catchments impacted by nutrient pollution. This should be expanded to agricultural activity. The Environment Agency should inspect all farms within the 27 catchment areas subject to nutrient neutrality advice by the end...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
62match
#81 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Local housebuilding remains stalled in many areas owing to the condition of protected sites; therefore, answering these questions to ensure the Integrated Plan for Water can be properly implemented is vital for local economies, to address the housing crisis and for the environment.
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Committee recommendation
62match
#80 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
It is unclear how this plan will be implemented. John Curtin, interim Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, suggested that resolving the implementation approach for the IPW would require political decisions on the balance of responsibility between sectors for addressing nutrient pollution: “How bold will you be? Do you want to buy X or Y farms to really...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
62match
#73 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Large, and growing, up-front costs disincentivise developers of all sizes from entering the housing market. For smaller developers with limited access to finance they are a greater burden. Whilst developers are willing and able to cover these costs in many circumstances, they should not be asked to fund inapplicable surveys.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
62match
#70 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Following the passage of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, the Secretary of State should use their powers to ensure that all wastewater treatment works with capacity for a population of 250 are upgraded by the 2030 deadline.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
62match
#68 - 2nd Report - The impact of environmental regulations on development
Effective moratoria on housebuilding caused by advice such as nutrient and water neutrality risk putting small developers out of business in affected areas.
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PFD report
61match
Kaius Tutt
The coroner noted faded deflection arrows and visibility issues near a roundabout, alongside a marginal overtaking opportunity at the collision site. A recommendation to remove the downhill overtaking section lacks funding for implementation.
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terms: funding
Committee recommendation
61match
#50 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
We recommend an uplift in funding for marine monitoring to ensure more rigorous data collection at sea.
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Committee recommendation
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#49 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
The Committee heard that the current resources available for marine monitoring are not sufficient to generate repeated and statistically robust time-series sampling points which are necessary for tracking and forming a baseline understanding of site conditions. Multiple stakeholders reported the need for an uplift in funding to establish an effective monitoring regime which is an essential early step...
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terms: funding
Committee recommendation
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#20 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
The impact of threats to the environment are managed by a wide range of policies and corresponding government departments and devolved administrations. Achieving 30 by 30 will be a collaborative goal and will require effective and joined up working beyond Defra and beyond Whitehall. It will require commitment, coordination and funding from Government to ensure delivery.
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NAO recommendation
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Local government and net zero in England
e) carry out an overall outline analysis of local authority funding for net zero, to inform the next Comprehensive Spending Review. This should: i) be developed in parallel with, and informed by, the development of a clearer articulation of local authorities’ role in achieving the national net zero strategy; ii) consider short, medium and long-term cost pressures and...
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PFD report
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Harold Davies
Concerns include multiple fatalities at a road junction since 2010, with proposed safety work lacking funding approval or a start date. The coroner also notes concerns about the speed limit and warning signs on Station Road.
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terms: funding
Committee recommendation
57match
#11 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
The Committee heard from a number of stakeholders that a lack of a statutory duty for SSSI monitoring has, due to implementation of past budget cuts, meant monitoring has become a casualty of resource constraints. A statutory monitoring duty would help deliver the funding for a priority activity to achieve the 30 by 30 target.
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Committee recommendation
57match
#27 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
We recognise that Norway has a comprehensive framework in place to respond to an oil spill emergency. Nonetheless, the UK Government should continue to press for high environmental standards and the protection of the Arctic marine environment by contributing to the scientific research and through continued participation in the work of the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment...
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terms: environmental
NAO recommendation
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Active Travel in England
DfT should: c. develop a more stable funding environment for local authorities delivering active travel interventions by working with others in government. This would help local authorities to invest in plans and resources and deliver interventions more efficiently;
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Committee recommendation
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#25 - 1st Report - New Towns: Commit and Build
Through the organisation of supply chains to prioritise domestic materials and products, locally sourced where possible, the environmental impact of transport could be lowered, as many core materials are currently imported from overseas. 39 Furthermore, by using locally sourced materials, the design of the town can be rooted in the local vernacular architectural style, increasing the acceptability of...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
53match
#25 - 2nd Report - An extraordinary challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our land and sea by...
We acknowledge that a significant increase in Government-administered monitoring is both staff and resource intensive at a time when there are significant competing demands on public finances. Citizen science data-gathering could play an important role in augmenting and strengthening the monitoring and management of SSSIs and other protected sites. A number of stakeholders reported the critical role that...
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Committee recommendation
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#170 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
India’s priorities include building partnerships with all stakeholders in the region, upholding international law and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as it applies to the Arctic, participating actively in climate change and environmental treaty frameworks relating to the Arctic, and promoting co-operation and scientific exchange with Arctic nations. 196
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
53match
#160 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
China has shown a strong interest in contributing to polar research and environmental protection in the region. The UK should continue to engage with China on scientific research and climate change issues as they relate to the Arctic, where possible, while remaining vigilant regarding the dual civilian-military use of some research activities.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#28 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
The UK’s stated policy on protecting Arctic biodiversity and mitigating climate change requires new fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic region to be kept to a minimum. The UK can most effectively contribute to this goal by adhering to its legally binding commitments to decarbonising its economy and achieving net zero by 2050.
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terms: policy