SEPA accelerates efforts to protect and improve Scotland’s environment building on year one success in new operating plan for 2025/26
Date published: 01 May 2025
Today Thursday 1st May, we published our annual operating plan, the second under our 2024-2027 corporate plan.
Nicole Paterson, SEPA’s CEO, said:
“I’m proud of what we have delivered for Scotland in the last year and our contribution to the nation’s environmental performance. Scotland’s environment is changing at pace and as Scotland’s principal environmental regulator, and strategic flood risk management authority, and as a public body, we must do the same.”
“We’ve set an ambitious transformation programme focused on our customers and enhancing what we do for the public and communities of Scotland. We’ve introduced new leadership, developed new ways of working and identified areas of transformation for ensuring the best protection of Scotland’s environment for the future.
“This year, we will accelerate our transformation, concentrating on our regulatory approach, being enabled by digital solutions, driving customer experience end enhancing our data driven decision making.
"We’ve strengthened our associated performance measures to provide a more complete picture of how well we are delivering for Scotland’s environment and ensure we can be held to account by Scottish Ministers and the people and communities of Scotland."
“We are focused on working together to further our ambitions and demonstrate our values for the benefit of Scotland’s environment, now and in the future.”