The targets to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 set out in the Environment Act 2021 have seen significant focus on and changes to developer’s biodiversity obligations across the UK.
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Don’t Pre-empt Planning Permission
The trend to proceed with site clearance ahead of ecological survey is increasing risk, cost, and timelines for development projects and can result in unlimited fines and a prison sentence.
Plan for Biodiversity Net Gain
Experience shows that biodiversity net gain measures cannot be “bolted on” at the end of development work, but must be planned and managed from the outset.
Ecological Survey Calendar
Nature doesn’t work to our timetables, but local authority ecologists will expect that surveys will have been conducted at the optimum time for the subject species.
Achieving Biodiversity Net Gain
Photo: Local Government Association – Development projects will be mandated to include at least 10% improvement in biodiversity by 2023. The UK government has committed itself to reversing the loss in biodiversity across the country by 2030 and has made provision in its “flagship” Environment Act 2021 for ensuring that each future development project deliversContinueContinue reading “Achieving Biodiversity Net Gain”
Science Park Solar Power
A significant amount of our work on this project was investigating whether badgers from the local nature reserve were making use of the proposed site.
UK Environment Act 2021
The Environment Act 2021 provides umbrella coverage for a range of supporting legislation within each of UK’s nations.
The Age of Nature
If they are to avoid “bad press”, architects, planners, developers and builders will need to increase provision for our natural world in their projects, whether large or small.
Impact of Aberbargoed Development
Proposals to build houses next to the Aberbargoed Grasslands Nature Reserve, SAC and SSSI required more than usually detailed ecological surveys.
Wales Declares Nature Emergency
Wales’ Strategy for Nature sets out an ambition ‘to reverse the decline in biodiversity, for its intrinsic value, and to ensure lasting benefits to society’,
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