| Heading: |
Planning: Environment Protection |
| Question ID: |
1811788 |
| UIN: |
59256 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5270 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Darren Paffey
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| Asking Member handle: |
darrenpaffey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@darrenpaffey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the role of the mitigation hierarchy of (a) avoidance, (b) mitigation and (c) compensation in ensuring ecological protections (i) during the plann |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4520 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Matthew Pennycook
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| Answering Member handle: |
mtpennycook
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mtpennycook
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that when determining planning applications, local planning authorities should apply the principle that if significant harm to biodiversity resulting from a development cannot be avoided, adequately mitigate... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |