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Alongside existing regulatory controls including Environmental Impact Assessment, the NMP provides a framework which aims to minimise and mitigate the environmental impacts of developments through, among other things, appropriate siting of farms in relation to protected species and wider biodiversity interests.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 2017
Through Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS), we launched FlyMapper in March 2015 – a new system to record, manage and report flytipping, making it easier to catch offenders and to deal with illegal dumping sites. So, far 27 Local Authorities have registered.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 November 2017
The Scottish Government will continue to encourage appropriately-sited, low carbon, affordable district heating in all sectors where cost effective to do so.
Equally, there would be no reason to choose just one of the many benefits that remain reserved to the United Kingdom Government—for example, universal credit, income support, child tax credits, maternity pay or pension credit—as the charter does not relate to them.