The Environment in Torfaen

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 16 December 2020.

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Photo of Lynne Neagle Lynne Neagle Labour 2:43, 16 December 2020

Thank you. I'm very concerned to hear this, and I certainly do share your concerns, because obviously planning and environmental permitting are complementary regimes. The planning permission determines if the development is an acceptable use of land, for instance, and it's absolutely right that the complaints went to the local authority in the first place, but I'll be certainly very happy to raise this with Natural Resources Wales at my regular monthly meetings, and then I will write to the Member to fully fulfil what your concerns are. Obviously, the issue of an environmental permit from NRW doesn't remove the requirement for a site to have the appropriate planning consent. So, I will ask NRW again to consult with the local authority and make sure that everything is absolutely in place.