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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.
Guidance on the use of Habitats Regulations Assessment
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitats.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
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.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
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.
This project is concerned with providing guidance for the monitoring of managed realignment and habitat creation sites.
Information for developers and local planning authorities explaining statutory biodiversity credits, and the process of buying them.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
How the Environment Agency will achieve their sustainability ambitions, including to create and improve habitat as part of Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
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 to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
This project created guidance for monitoring sites in the intertidal regions of estuaries and coastal zones, saltmarsh and mudflat habitats.
The project aimed to develop a national dataset of sites that are suitable for habitat restoration or creation. The dataset provides information to inform policy development that can help increase the amount of ecologically important habitat, where appropriate and in...
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