3. What types of development are required to provide mitigation?
A habitat mitigation contribution must be paid in respect of the following types of development (this list is not exhaustive):
- New residential development (market and affordable housing)
- Self-build developments
- Changes of use to residential, e.g. shop to dwelling, and conversions of buildings to residential where new dwellings are created
- 'Prior Approval' permitted developments where the end use is residential
- Holiday accommodation
- Housing for the mobile elderly, but not for care homes for elderly or infirm who have significant reduced mobility.
?This applies to all:
- Full applications.
- Outline applications.
- Reserved matters applications where no contribution was made at the outline stage.
- Permission in Principle (or at technical consent stage)
The impacts are highest from developments within 10 kilometres?of these?SPAs. It is therefore essential that mitigation is secured to make such developments permissible.?View our map to see if your site is within 10 kilometres?of the SPA boundaries.
Non-recreational impacts
An Appropriate Assessment (AA) may also be needed for other impacts from accommodation or from non-accommodation developments,?for example,?discharge of surface water to the SPA or disturbance during construction.
In such instances additional information may be needed from the applicant before the AA can be completed and hence before a decision can be issued.