It is now mandatory that major developments applying for a new planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act must deliver at least a 10% biodiversity net gain (BNG). The law will extend to minor developments from 2 April, and it is expected to apply to Nationally Significant ...
Ben Stansfield, Partner and environmental law specialist atGowling WLG, says the secondary legislation was a fairly predictable set of regulations that largely confirmed what the industry was expecting. We also now have a definite and confirmed biodiversity hierarchy, which architects will ...
regulations to bring all policy decisions into law. It is not known whether the regulations will be published in draft for comment, or simply made. For further information in relation to the issues raised in this briefing, or to discuss the Biodiversity Net Gain scheme and how it may affect...
The Environment Bill, set to become law next year, requires all new developments to deliver a minimum uplift of 10% in biodiversity. With its consultation having just closed on 5 April 2022, the biodiversity net gain (BNC) legislation is set to be pivotal for our planning system, and there...
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Working for Biodiversity Net Gain: An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) 2004–2018 (BBOP, Forest Trends, 2018). Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodivers...
Details of the theory of evolution are beyond the scope of this book; we simply recap that evolution works through natural selection on the genetic variability of species at the population level. In contrast to the popular belief that natural selection acts according to the law of survival of ...
Irreplaceable habitats such as ancient woodland, ancient and veteran trees, blanket bog, limestone pavement, sand dunes, salt marsh and lowland fen will all remain out of scope of the mandatory net gain requirement. These sites will continue to be protected by requirements o...
Both radar and observers were used to gain data for use in the Band Model for providing a likely range of mortality estimates. An expert team from the Government’s Department of Conservation, the local government and the company determined the potential range of measures for use in the model...
Planning and development agendas for biodiversity are being pushed forward by legislation including biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements for developers, new green infrastructure and urban greening guidelines in the UK, and progression of the Nature Restoration Law in the EU. Whether you require BNG...