Biodiversity Net Gain guidance published

This week Defra published a host of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) content to support industry to get ready for mandatory BNG rollout in early 2024, from statutory instruments, guidance, the statutory biodiversity metric, and habitat management and monitoring plans:

Biodiversity Net Gain guidance published

This week Defra published a host of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) content to support industry to get ready for mandatory BNG rollout in early 2024, from statutory instruments, guidance, the statutory biodiversity metric, and habitat management and monitoring plans:

The statutory biodiversity metric calculation tools, draft user guides and condition assessments which will be used to calculate biodiversity value for BNG.

The draft secondary legislation:

Irreplaceable habitats

The biodiversity gain site register

Exemptions

Modification and amendments

A helpful explanatory blog on the Sis.

The draft BNG guidance / Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities have published their draft Planning Policy Guidance
BNG guidance

PPG

Natural England’s Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan template