Biodiversity Net Gain Guidance – What You Need To Know

In advance of the secondary legislation the sector awaits, DEFRA has issued three useful guidance notes on Biodiversity Net Gain.

We'll go into the detail further in follow up articles shortly, but here are the key points you need to know now.

General key points

• Avoiding biodiversity loss in development is the first goal. If that's not possible, you can do one of the following things: a) create habitat on the same site as the development; b) create that habitat off-site; c) buy units from a land manager or other private source; or d) as a last option buy statutory credits from the Government (these will cost more – we should know in in the spring what the credits will be valued at).