The implementation of a wide range of plans or projects can affect the wildlife or habitats for which sites have been designated for their nature conservation importance. Decisions need to be made as to the significance of the effects of many ongoing projects and incomplete developments, which alone may have very small effects but which, in combination with other projects could have significant effects. In order to assist in future case work, English Nature commissioned this research report to conduct a review of previous legal judgments and Inspectors’ decisions and reports in cases where the spatial scale of impacts was material to the conclusions reached.
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