Nature and biodiversity are at the heart of the government’s plans for the environment over the coming years. Local authorities have a key role in delivering these plans, through meeting new requirements on nature recovery contained in the Environment Act, alongside the many other commitments that local authorities already have [...]
Working on behalf of Defra, we have completed an analysis of consultation responses on proposals to make biodiversity net gain a requirement for new developments. The proposals come in the context of the UK Government’s ambition to embed the principle of ‘environmental net gain’ into development, as set out in [...]