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What to include in a habitat management and monitoring plan (HMMP) to improve biodiversity for the long term.
The prices of statutory biodiversity credits from the date biodiversity net gain (BNG) becomes mandatory.
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitats.
Guidance on the use of Habitats Regulations Assessment
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
How to apply for a grant for habitat creation using blended public and private funding.
When and how to measure a habitat or development’s impact on biodiversity.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Planning practice guidance on biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find out about priority habitats and species, the value of ancient and native woodland and when it's appropriate to remove trees to restore open habitats.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
Information for developers and local planning authorities explaining statutory biodiversity credits, and the process of buying them.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
How the Environment Agency will achieve their sustainability ambitions, including to create and improve habitat as part of Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
This project is concerned with providing guidance for the monitoring of managed realignment and habitat creation sites.
How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
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