Response 4069140

Response to request for information

Reference

4069140

Response date

22 July 2026

Request

Please see the below Freedom Of Information request.

1. Has the authority adopted any policy, guidance, or formal position relating to the preferred location of off-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units?
2. If the answer to Question 1 is yes, does the authority require or normally expect off-site BNG units to be located:
   • within the local planning authority area; 
   • within the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) area;
   • within the same National Character Area (NCA); or   
   • within another specified geographic area (please specify).
3. How many Biodiversity Net Gain habitat banks registered on the national Biodiversity Gain Sites Register are located within the authority's administrative area, according to the information held by the authority? (Please state the number as at the date of your response.
4. Has the authority established, or is it in the process of establishing, a Biodiversity Net Gain habitat bank on land that it owns or controls? If yes, please state how many.
5. Does the council have an adopted or emerging policy which requires above 10% biodiversity net gain? If so, please specify whether this is on all sites or particular types of sites.

Response

1. Has the authority adopted any policy, guidance, or formal position relating to the preferred location of off-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units? 

No

2. If the answer to Question 1 is yes, does the authority require or normally expect off-site BNG units to be located:
   • within the local planning authority area; 
   • within the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) area;
   • within the same National Character Area (NCA); or   
   • within another specified geographic area (please specify).

None specified, but expected to follow the BNG Hierarchy

3. How many Biodiversity Net Gain habitat banks registered on the national Biodiversity Gain Sites Register are located within the authority's administrative area, according to the information held by the authority? (Please state the number as at the date of your response.

1

4. Has the authority established, or is it in the process of establishing, a Biodiversity Net Gain habitat bank on land that it owns or controls? If yes, please state how many.

Zero

5. Does the council have an adopted or emerging policy which requires above 10% biodiversity net gain? If so, please specify whether this is on all sites or particular types of sites.

Yes, see this publication, section 3.17.12.