Current Consultations

Consultation – Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2025 to 2028

Consultation closes: April 22nd, 2025 The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is consulting on their Draft Business Plan. This plan reflects the Strategy published in 2021. The key activities and progress across the NDA’s sites throughout the next 3 years are outlined in this plan. The NDA works with decommissioning UK’s nuclear sites. They carry out an

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Consultation – Marine Recovery Fund

Consultation closes: May 12th, 2025 Defra is consulting on the Marine Recovery Fund (MRF). They are asking for your views on how this will function. What is the Marine Recovery Fund (MRF)? The Marine Recovery Fund is a proposed voluntary mechanism to pay into strategic compensatory measures (SCMs) for adverse environmental impacts on protected sites.

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Consultation – Changes to permitted development rights

Consultation closes: June 1st, 2025 The Welsh Government is seeking your views on Changes to Permitted Development Rights, including: Air Source Heat Pumps Off-street Parking EV Chargers Temporary Camp Sites Development by Statutory Undertakers (electricity) Affordable Housing and Meanwhile Uses And change to the definition of major development. The Welsh Government is also seeking your

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Consultation – Land Use in England

Consultation closes: April 25th, 2025 This is a consultation on Land Use in England. The aim is to gather views and lived experiences of farmers, developers and citizens. Currently, there is a plan to shift power from Whitehall to individuals and communities that use the land. The consultation process will determine the role of the

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Consultation – River Basin Planning: Working Together 2024

Consultation closes: 14 May 2025   The Environment Agency is seeking your feedback an approach of working together to review and update the river basin management plans in 2027. The river basin management plans are updated at the end of a 6 year planning cycle, where the next update is due 2027. In order to

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Consultation closed: Consultation on the merchant shipping (vessels in commercial use for sport or pleasure) regulations 2025

Consultation closes: 25 February 2025 at 11:59 pm The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking views on a new Statutory Instrument and the accompanying Code of Practice for Small Vessels in Commercial use for Sport of Pleasure (“Sport or Pleasure Vessel Code”). Consultation description The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or

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Consultation closed: Draft information and guidance on storm overflows

Consultation closes: 24 January 2025 at 11:59pm   Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), together with Ofwat and the Environment Agency, have collated draft information and guidance on storm overflows. The consultation covers existing policy and legislation with the aim of supporting water, sewerage companies and regulators in managing and regulating storm overflows.

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