biodiversity net gain
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19.02.2021biodiversity net gain | East Midlands | Housing | inquiry | settlement boundaries | spatial planning
An inspector has approved 260 homes at Desborough, Northamptonshire, deciding that although the town’s housing requirement had already been ‘considerably exceeded’, the scheme would not challenge Kettering’s...
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19.11.2020
Golf clubs – which occupy around 2 per cent of the UK's land area – can be a crucial ally in the battle to increase the nation's biodiversity, argues Karen Colebourn
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17.11.2020
Should the biodiversity net gain system be focusing more explicitly on supporting human wellbeing? Is biodiversity recovery best served by working on individual sites or at a larger, more strategic scale? To what extent can the biodiversity net gain system contribute to nature recovery on a...
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20.08.2020
The value and potential of green space and environmental improvement have been poorly understood within the planning system. Changes are afoot, but what sort of impact will they have? Keith Lancaster and...
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29.07.2020
Housebuilder Redrow has launched a ‘Nature for People’ biodiversity strategy, which has been established as part of a long-standing partnership with charity The Wildlife Trusts.
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15.05.2020biodiversity net gain | Environmental | Housing | housing crisis | recovered appeal | Rural | SSSI | Water & Marine | Yorkshire
Major housing plans for land next to a site of special scientific interest that were opposed by a cross-party group of MPs and Sir David Attenborough have been rejected by the housing secretary Robert...
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14.05.2020
Achieving a net gian in biodiversity is to become a requirement for developers. Kate McClean runs the rule over the challenges it may present - and the opportunities
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23.03.202025 year environment plan | biodiversity net gain | England | Environmental | Policy & Politics | wildilfe
The forthcoming environment bill will enshrine in law the concept of biodiversity net gain – but while the principle is widely supported, there are concerns about its implementation, as Matt Moody finds out...
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17.12.2019
New licensing to protect great crested newts could be “win-win” for developers and biodiversity, says Louisa Jones, head of ecology at Pro Vision.
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31.05.2019
Despite the drive towards a greater appreciation of ecological impacts when making plans and planning decisions, too few planners have the knowledge they need to confidently make decisions about...
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