Legislative Changes June 2026

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION CHANGES

These Regulations amend The Infrastructure Planning (Fees) Regulations 2010 to add host local authorities to the list of Prescribed Public Authorities who are able charge fees in relation to the provision of relevant services provided in connection with Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in Schedule 2. A host local authority is any local authority in whose area the land, or any part of that land, to which the application relates is situated. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 and the Town and Country Planning (Compensation) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2014. Article 3 of, and Schedule 2 to, the GPDO confer permitted development rights in respect of certain developments. Where such rights are conferred, an application for planning permission is not required. Article 3 of this Order amends Part 4 of Schedule 2 (temporary buildings and uses) to the GPDO. It makes minor amendments to paragraph B.1(b) in relation to the use of land for a caravan site and adds a new class of permitted development (temporary use of land for campsites) at Class BA. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations amends four items of assimilated law and revokes one. It forms part of the Government’s programme to reform the UK’s implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), delivering a proportionate and administratively lighter framework that continues to give effect to the United Kingdom’s international obligations. The instrument introduces targeted amendments to better reflect UK trade risk profiles, reducing disproportionate administrative burdens for traders and regulators. It also includes measures that strengthen conservation outcomes, improve operational efficiency, and make minor technical updates. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations amend the Contracts for Difference (Allocation) Regulations 2014. The Allocation Regulations form part of the legislative framework underpinning the Contracts for Difference scheme under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Energy Act 2013. These Regulations concern the arrangements for determining whether renewables projects qualify for a Contract for Difference and the procedure where qualification appeals are pending when the process of allocating contracts begins. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations make modifications to the legislation which gives effect to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (the UK ETS). This modification provides for an uplift to the lime benchmark for 2027 to the value intended, and stated publicly, to ensure lime installations’ preliminary free allocations for the 2027 scheme year are calculated as intended. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations relate to the maximum level of UK greenhouse gas emissions for the years 2028 to 2032, known as the fifth carbon budget, which was set in 2016. The legislation sets a limit (of zero) on the amount of overseas reductions, or avoidance, of greenhouse gases that are allowed to count towards meeting the fifth carbon budget. The legislation also exempts the EU Emissions Trading System from the limit. This is to avoid restricting any future approaches to linking the EU Emissions Trading System and the UK Emissions Trading Scheme. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

HEALTH & SAFETY LEGISLATION CHANGES

These Regulations make technical amendments to the Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023 (the RAS Regulations). The RAS Regulations established a scheme under which relevant residential developers needed to join the Responsible Actors Scheme (RAS, or the Scheme) and identify and remediate relevant potentially unsafe buildings, or face being subject to building control and planning prohibitions, which would involve significant commercial consequences for them, and entities they control. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply 

These Regulations amend the Control of Explosives Precursors etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 to strengthen the control of the explosives precursors phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, hexamine and sulfur in Northern Ireland, and to implement Regulation (EU) 2019/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the marketing and use of explosives precursors (the Precursors Regulation) in Northern Ireland. Find out more about these Regulations and how they affect you by subscribing to We Comply