Legislation – Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025
Part 3Development and nature recovery
Overview
59Overview of EDPs
(1)
An environmental delivery plan is a plan prepared by Natural England, and made by the Secretary of State, that sets out, in relation to development to which it applies—
(a)
the environmental features that are likely to be negatively affected by the development,
(b)
the conservation measures that are to be taken by or on behalf of Natural England in order to protect those environmental features,
(c)
the amount of the nature restoration levy payable by developers to Natural England to cover the cost of those conservation measures (see sections 62 and 72 to 81), and
(d)
the environmental obligations in relation to development that are discharged, disapplied or otherwise modified if a developer pays the nature restoration levy in relation to the development (see section 72 and Schedule 3).
(2)
In this Part—
(a)
sections 60 to 63 make provision about the required contents of an environmental delivery plan;
(c)
sections 67 to 71 make provision about reporting on, amending, revoking and challenging an environmental delivery plan.
(3)
In this Part, an “EDP” means an environmental delivery plan.