Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is a bill in the Parliament of the United Kingdom which proposes significant change to planning law in the United Kingdom.

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	A Bill to make provision about infrastructure; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision for a scheme, administered by Natural England, for a nature restoration levy payable by developers; to make provision about development corporations; to make provision about the compulsory purchase of land; to make provision about environmental outcomes reports; and for connected purposes.
Citation	Bill 196 2024-25 HL Bill 110
Introduced by	Angela Rayner MP (Commons) Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lords)
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Status: Pending
History of passage through Parliament

Provisions

The legislation reduces the number of available legal challenges to planning decisions from three to at most two.^[1]

The legislation moves more decisions away from councillors and towards council officers.^[2]

The Nature Restoration Fund would be established and managed by Natural England.^[3] The legislation allows developers to contribute to the fund as part of meeting their environmental obligations.^[4]

Reception

The legislation was described by Wildlife Trusts as a "trojan horse", describing it as giving developers "cash to trash" green spaces and a "licence to destroy" nature.^[5]

The Office for Environmental Protection criticised certain parts as weakening environmental protections, but supported most of the bill.^[6][7]