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What legislation protects priority habitats? What powers does Natural England have over priority habitat which has not been designated a site of special and scientific interest, special protection area or special areas of conservation? Does it have control over how the land should be managed?
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If a Freedom of Information Act request asks for the name of the individual civil servant who has made a decision on behalf of the Secretary of State, under the Carltona Principle, can the name be withheld on the basis that the decision is actually that of the Secretary of State and not the civil servant? Alternatively, can the name be withheld on any other basis?
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Where an employee of a private company is also a member of a government committee, would correspondence pertaining to their employment be disclosable under a freedom of information request as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000?
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At what point in the process of a review of a neighbourhood plan is information submitted to the competent authority to comply with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, SI 2012/637, Sch 2 ((relating to the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, SI 2017/1012)?
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If a planning application has been granted on the basis of there being imperative reasons of overriding public interest (IROPI) and as a result compensatory measures have been granted, what would happen to the planning permission if the grounds on which the IROPI case was made out no longer exist? Would the compensation measures still stand?
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Associated legal terms

Brownfield land

Land that is or was occupied by a permanent structure; the opposite of greenfield or virgin land.

Exclusion tests

/ɪkˈskluːʒ(ə)n/ /tɛst/

The series of tests within Part IIA of the EPA 1990 which can be applied by the enforcing authority to determine that one or more persons may be excluded from a liability group and therefore not be an appropriate person for the purposes of contaminated land remediation.

Land contamination

Land contamination is a general term used to describe any land that may be contaminated in some way, but not necessarily at levels that attract contaminated land regime liability.
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