Irreplaceable habitats

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on biodiversity net gain (BNG) and how it applies to irreplaceable habitats. Covers: what irreplaceable habitats are; how BNG applies to development on irreplaceable habitats; what developers need to do - a) consider irreplaceable habitat at the design and planning application stage, b) calculate BNG when there are irreplaceable habitats; and c) record irreplaceable habitats in the biodiversity gain plan.

Document History

Last updated: 4 September 2024 - Clarifies how irreplaceable habitat is dealt with under biodiversity net gain, and explains what information is needed at planning application stage. The policy around irreplaceable habitat and biodiversity net gain remains unchanged. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/irreplaceable-habitats and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 22 February 2024.

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