PPS 9
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Planning Policy Statement 9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation commonly abbreviated as PPS 9, is a document produced by the British Government to advise Local planning authorities
on planning policies for the protection of biodiversity and geological conservation through the planning system. The current version was introduced in August 2005 and replaced Revised PPG 9: Nature conservation (published October 1994). PPS9 is reinforced and updated by Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Circular 06/2005: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation - Statutory Obligations and Their Impact Within the Planning System, also published by the British Government on 15 August 2005. Circular 06/2005 and PPS9 place a clear duty on local planning authorities to ensure that protected species and habitats in the UK are a "material consideration" in the determination of a planning application.
Local Planning Authority
A local planning authority is the local authority or council that is empowered by law to exercise planning functions for a particular area of the United Kingdom. Although, in Scotland, where all of the local authorities are unitary, the term 'planning authority' is used without the 'local'...
on planning policies for the protection of biodiversity and geological conservation through the planning system. The current version was introduced in August 2005 and replaced Revised PPG 9: Nature conservation (published October 1994). PPS9 is reinforced and updated by Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Circular 06/2005: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation - Statutory Obligations and Their Impact Within the Planning System, also published by the British Government on 15 August 2005. Circular 06/2005 and PPS9 place a clear duty on local planning authorities to ensure that protected species and habitats in the UK are a "material consideration" in the determination of a planning application.
See also
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