Legislation – Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025
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Part 3Development and nature recovery
Powers and duties: Natural England etc
83Power to enter and survey or investigate land
(1)
A person authorised by Natural England may enter and survey or investigate any land in connection with the exercise by Natural England of any function conferred by or under this Part.
(2)
The power conferred by subsection (1)—
(a)
must be exercised at a reasonable hour;
(b)
may not be exercised in relation to a private dwelling.
(3)
A person authorised under subsection (1) may not demand admission as of right to any land which is occupied unless notice in writing of the intended entry has been given to the occupier as follows—
(a)
if the land is held by a statutory undertaker, the notice must be at least 21 days;
(b)
in any other case, the notice must be at least 24 hours.
(4)
But notice under subsection (3) is not required to be given for second and subsequent entries onto the same land to carry out the same kind of surveying or investigating.
(5)
A person may not be authorised under subsection (1) to enter and survey or value land in connection with a proposal by Natural England to acquire an interest in or a right over land (but see section 172 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016).
(6)
In this section, “statutory undertaker” means a person who is, or who is deemed to be, a statutory undertaker for the purposes of any provision of Part 11 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.