Clearing the air: will HMIP guidance on the use of 'best available techniques not entailing excessive costs' engender confidence in pollution control authorities?

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PG23 gives clear advice to planning authorities with regard to pollution control regimes and how they should be applied and enforced. Planning departments have previously been concerned that the effect of refusal of authorisation of best available techniques not entailing excessive costs (Batneec) could led to the release of high levels of harmful substances. HMIP guidance offers comment on whether a process is likely to use Batneec and whether it will be authorised.

Pollution, Control

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Closing the loophole: this year's Town and Country Planning Regulations have closed a loophole that has existed since 1988

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Local planning authorities must now decide whether an unauthorised development will fall within Schedules 1 or 2 of the 1995 Town and Country Planning Regulations, or not, before it can issue an enforcement notice. Certain types of environmentally sensitive developments required an environmental statement, and schedules 1 and 2 of the 1988 regulations indicated the types of development for which an environmental statement was required.

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