Part 10A, Section 204V: Appeals Schedule 15: Amendments of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017: assumptions about nutrient pollution standards Background
This Schedule amends Part 6 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 ("the 2017 Regulations") so that competent authorities, when making relevant assessments under the 2017 Regulations for planning-related decisions, are required to assume that sewage disposal works will meet the relevant nutrient pollution standards introduced by section 168 (Nutrient pollution standards to apply to certain sewage disposal works) by the relevant upgrade date (or by the ‘applicable date’ in the case of a catchment permitting area). The amendments also create a new power for the Secretary of State to direct authorities that the assumptions do not apply in relation to a particular plant and a particular nutrient pollution standard.