North Tyneside’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"

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North Tyneside’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

North Tyneside is part of the North of Tyne and Wear Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be foundhere.

Specific BNG requirements are set out in the BNG Developers Guidance.

The purpose of the condition is to secure the biodiversity objective, which is that the biodiversity value attributable to the development exceeds the predevelopment biodiversity value of the onsite habitat by at least 10%. This can be achieved through habitat creation or enhancement onsite; the provision or purchase of biodiversity units from a habitat bank; or as a last resort through the purchase of statutory credits; or a mixture of these.

See also the Local Plan (adopted July 2017).

Specific Strategic Significance requirements can be found in the Strategic Significance section of the BNG Developers Guidance.

Strategic significance relates to the spatial location of a habitat parcel and it operates at a landscape scale. All habitat parcels (both baseline and post-intervention) must be assigned a strategic significance score; it should be considered separately for each individual habitat parcel in the metric and not on a site-wide basis. Habitat not specified in some form of strategy, map or plan for that area should not be considered strategically significant.