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  • Freeths’ Environment Team (North) has extensive experience advising on protected sites designated for nature conservation (from international sites to national sites to locally designated sites of importance for biodiversity). Examples of services we provide relating to protected sites include devising Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) strategies for developers, objectors and competent authorities; legally reviewing, and where necessary challenging, HRAs produced in support of planning decisions, local development plans, and plans proposed by other public bodies; reviewing and challenging the legality of the decisions of local planning authorities or of statutory nature conservation bodies to designate sites for nature conservation.
  • Environmental Permitting: obtaining and challenging regulators’ decisions on the grant of environmental permits and their conditions; securing our clients’ compliance with environmental permits, abstraction licences, trade effluent consents and discharge consent.

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Penny Simpson
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Penny Simpson
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Alison Ogley
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Alison Ogley
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