扒哥吃瓜

Skip to main content
Policy paper

Environmental Compensatory Measures Reforms for Offshore Wind: policy background and proposed compensation hierarchy

How legislation is changing to enable wider compensatory measures for offshore wind and the proposed compensation hierarchy.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
27 February 2026

This publication was withdrawn on

This policy paper has been withdrawn as it is now out of date.

The compensation hierarchy and full guidance for compensating for environmental harm caused by offshore wind projects was published on 21 May 2026.

Documents

Environmental Compensatory Measures Reforms for Offshore Wind: policy background and proposed compensation hierarchy

HTML

Details

This policy note聽summarises聽聽

  • the wider policy and delivery context聽for聽the Environmental Compensatory Measures Reform (ECMR) for offshore wind Statutory Instrument (SI)聽
  • our plans to publish further聽guidance and information on this topic when the SI comes into force聽in聽May聽this聽year, including聽a proposed聽version of the聽compensation hierarchy聽referred to in the SI

Updates to this page

Published 27 February 2026

Sign up for emails or print this page