Important: the Council has incorporated the statutory BNG requirement, stating "All applications for new development (excluding works to domestic properties) will have to meet new biodiversity requirements" (see here).
General Advice
Lichfield’s BNG level is set at 10%.
The NPPF states: "applicants are encouraged to consider biodiversity net gain early in the development process and factor it into site selection and design. Where appropriate, they should discuss the biodiversity net gain requirements for their development upfront with the relevant local planning authority utilising any pre-application advice services offered by them. This could help establish whether development proposals would be subject to biodiversity net gain and, if they are, enable feedback on the proposed strategy for achieving the biodiversity gain objective and consideration of the Biodiversity Gain Hierarchy to inform the design of the proposals"
Please note, If you work for the LPA and wish to add additional information, please inform the Joe's Blooms team here.
Pre-Application Advice Service
Lichfield’s pre-application advice service can be found here.
Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Lichfield is part of the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.
Specific Requirements
A new Local Plan is currently being developed.
See also the BNG Page
Strategic Significance
N/A