Habitat banking - a new look at nature and development mitigation

摘要

The planning system has become increasingly complex: it would be barely recognisable to those who created it within the post-war wave of brave new thinking back in 1947. Not only has the domestic planning system gone through some fairly significant reviews (in 1968, 1970 and 1990/91, and now through the 2004 Act), but local government has changed, the planning process has become heavily politicised, the concept of sustainable development has been introduced, and over-arching European legislation and directives have appeared.