Controlled Activities Regulations: Revised Proposals for General Binding Rules

LINK welcomes the Scottish Executive’s attempt to simplify General Binding Rules (GBRs), and introduce higher flexibility to ensure effective and practical regulations. We already mentioned in our previous responses that we greatly welcome the introduction of ‘soft licencing’ instead of registration GBRs that would allow SEPA better control over small-scale activities that could have cumulative impacts on the water environment.