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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.
The prices of statutory biodiversity credits from the date biodiversity net gain (BNG) becomes mandatory.
How land managers, developers, local planning authorities (LPAs) and responsible bodies can enter into a legal agreement for biodiversity net gain.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How the Nature Restoration Fund works and what developers need to know. This guidance will be updated regularly as the service is developed.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Find out what IPM is and how to apply it on your land.
What you need to do for biodiversity net gain (BNG) if irreplaceable habitat is present.
Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.
Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital.
How the Environment Agency responds to planning consultations that include activities permitted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 and other consenting regimes.
Use this service to estimate the cost of statutory biodiversity credits for a development.
How to use nature-based solutions (NbS) to support sustainable water resources, including case studies and a literature review.
This Handbook sets out a standard way of recording hedgerows.
A list of the projects that have been awarded funding through Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme to support threatened species.
A guide to using the nature restoration levy to discharge specific environmental obligations.
Guidance on the criteria and assessment process for land to contribute to 30by30 in England.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development with planning permission at the same time.
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