This has been featured on BBC's Countryfile a few times.
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) relates to new housing developments which are of a particular size.
The policy is now live, and Natural England and DEFRA have produced a tool to help developers work out their obligations.
This Guardian article outlines more about the scheme.
This is claimed to help with Nature Recovery.
From the GOV.UK website.BNG is a way of creating and improving natural habitats. BNG makes sure development has a measurably positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity, compared to what was there before development.
In England, BNG is becoming mandatory under Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021).
Developers must deliver a BNG of 10%. This means a development will result in more or better quality natural habitat than there was before development (allegedly)
Image: Housing being built on the edge of Cambridge - image shared under CC license by Alan Parkinson
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