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ARTICLE · 30 APRIL 2024

Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain – Changes From 12 February 2024

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Biodiversity net gain is a government strategy to ensure that habitat for wildlife is in a better state than it was before development. The habitat is in effect used as a proxy for calculating biodiversity.

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Biodiversity net gain is a government strategy to ensure that habitat for wildlife is in a better state than it was before development. The habitat is in effect used as a proxy for calculating biodiversity.

The Government have hailed this to be a significant milestone in the delivery of their Environmental Improvement Plan, to ensure new development contributes to the recovery of nature and to meet the target to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030.

What is happening from 12 February 2024?

In England, a biodiversity plan will be mandatory for new planning applications for major development (includes residential developments with 10 or more dwellings, or where the site area is greater than 0.5 hectares) made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA), subject to confirmed exemptions. Developers will be required to set out how the post-development biodiversity value must improve by at least 10% of the biodiversity value on the site prior to

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