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Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Continued Petitions - Wed 17 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: None The growth of expensive legal threats is an attack on free speech and some basic human rights. - Speech Link
2: None fundamental rights in Europe. - Speech Link
3: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) Is it possible for non-governmental legal intervention to tackle SLAPPs? - Speech Link
4: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) a new register of ancient woodlands but that it is not possible to provide a timescale for completion - Speech Link
5: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) a register of ancient woodlands and not responsibility for the maintenance of woodlands. - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Feb. 14 2024

Source Page: Natural environment
Document: Natural environment (webpage)

Found: Planning conditions, legal agreements or undertakings may be appropriate in order to provide for monitoring

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Forestry Commission

Oct. 31 2023

Source Page: Managing and maintaining woodlands: overview
Document: Managing and maintaining woodlands: overview (webpage)

Found: Find out more and apply for a Woodland Management Plan grant.

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Forestry Commission

Oct. 31 2023

Source Page: Managing and maintaining woodlands: overview
Document: Managing semi-natural woodland in England (PDF)

Found: native trees wereplanted on ancient woodland sites.

Select Committee
Open Spaces Society
 UGS0009 - Urban Green Spaces

Written Evidence Jan. 09 2024

Inquiry: Urban Green Spaces
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Introduce legal protection and long-term maintenance of urban green space.

Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Trees, forests and hedges - some frequently asked questions
Oct. 05 2023
View source webpage
Trees, forests and hedges can provide numerous benefits. However, they can sometimes be the source of interest, concern or dispute in communities and neighbourhoods. This briefing outlines the main rules which can be used to deal with disputes, the rules on creating and removing forests and woodlands, and some of the ways in which the law protects trees. It is not legal

Found: Trees, forests and hedges - some frequently asked questions

Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I am slightly concerned because the legal position is very clear: any new development built after 2009 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) rainforests in the tropics in the extent of the diversity of nature that is encouraged to live among the trees - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) woodland and ancient and veteran trees during the passage of the Environment Act. - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Open consultation)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

May. 08 2024

Source Page: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on siting
Document: Appraisal of Sustainability Scoping Report for EN-8: appendix A (PDF)

Found: It established a body of new basic legal standards for Europe, to be met by national policies for the

Departmental Publication (Open consultation)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Jan. 11 2024

Source Page: Approach to siting new nuclear power stations beyond 2025
Document: Nuclear National Policy Statement: AoS scoping report appendices volume 1 (PDF)

Found: Trees outside woodlands: Trees throughout the environment such as wood pastures, ancient and veteran

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Continued Petitions - Wed 28 Jun 2023

Mentions:
1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) It was brought by Audrey Baird and Fiona Baker on behalf of Help Trees Help Us. - Speech Link
2: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) It looked at the highest-altitude trees and discovered that a colossal 56 per cent of all trees that - Speech Link
3: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) the balance between the rights of complainers and the rights of the accused. - Speech Link