Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Planning Practice Guidance
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on protecting and enhancing the natural environment through implementing policy. Covers: agricultural land, soil and brownfield land of environmental value; green infrastructure; biodiversity, geodiversity and ecosystems; and landscape.
History
Last updated: 9 June 2025 - Added new paragraph 'How can developments incorporate features which support priority or threatened species?'. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/natural-environment and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 21 January 2016.
Subjects
- Planning control
- Planning and development
- Planning control, England
- Environmental planning/land
Publisher History
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.