{"id":97073,"date":"2021-07-30T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=97073"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:01:59","slug":"construction-biodiversity-net-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-biodiversity-net-gain\/97073\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligning housing construction with biodiversity net gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are all well versed in materials shortages, the skills gap, achieving net zero goals, and the need for more diverse housing solutions to meet the current demand. Finding solutions that combat more than one of these problems is becoming more important than ever before<\/h2>\n

With the combined climate and ecological crisis \u2013 it is thought that increasing our available habitat and biodiversity could potentially be a way to combat both. While this is a powerful motivator for local authorities \u2013 many of whom in the South West have declared a climate emergency with ambitious net zero targets<\/a>, the UK government is currently putting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) into law under the Environment Bill.<\/p>\n

The Environment Bill has several aspects, many of which relate to how environmental matters in the UK<\/a> will be regulated and policed in the absence of the EU institutions. It is currently going through parliament and will introduce a requirement for biodiversity net gain as a condition of planning permission in England.<\/p>\n

The local planning authority will only be able to approve the biodiversity gain plan if it thinks that the Biodiversity Gain Objective (BGO) will be met if the \u201cbiodiversity value attributable to the development\u201d exceeds the pre-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat by at least 10%.<\/p>\n

This is a reasonably wide concept, but it includes:<\/h3>\n