Environmental delivery plans and nature restoration fund

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Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 sets out a framework intended to support environmental delivery for development in England through strategic, area-wide measures rather than relying solely on project-by-project mitigation. A central feature is the use of environmental delivery plans (EDPs), which are designed to co-ordinate nature restoration and biodiversity enhancement across a defined area and over a defined period. A key initial question is whether an EDP applies to the land in question and, if so, how it changes the environmental steps a developer would otherwise need to take.

See Practice Note: Environmental delivery plans and the Nature Restoration Levy.

How EDPs operate

EDPs operate by identifying environmental features in scope, setting the geographic

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