Improve, not replace: SUDG marine industries need stability to deliver green growth

The SUDG has written to three Secretaries of States to state they do not recommend moving away from environmental legislation such as the Habitat Regulations and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, which are well established and well understood.

SUDG Letter to SoS for BEIS DLUHC and DEFRA_Marine industries reinforce the need for stabi.

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The SUDG believe that considerable improvements could be made to the length and complexity of the consenting process, the time it takes to reach a decision and the bureaucracy associated with gaining consent, but that most improvements could be achieved by better implementation of the existing legislation rather than widespread planning reform.