Statutory Responsibility and Professional Competence

Compliance with statutory duties and appropriate implementation of statutory powers

Judicial review of local authority with a ruling that they have failed in their statutory environmental duties and responsibilities

Receipt of a formal notification from English Nature or the Countryside Council for Wales, that the LA's actions may have contravened environmental legislation

None

Awareness of and appropriate action over statutory duties and powers in order to achieve positive biodiversity gain:

> Town and Country Planning Act
> Planning and Compensation Act
> Land Drainage Act Chpt 25 (1995)
> Habitat Regulations (1994)
> EIA Regulations (1999)
> Section 39 Agreements
> Declaration of Local Nature Reserves
> Hedgerow Regulations