Nottingham City’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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Nottingham City’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

Nottingham City is part of the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be foundhere.

Specific BNG requirements are set out in Policy 3.1 of theLocal Plan (adopted January 2023).

Paragraph 3.1.5: The area's unique built and natural environment will be enhanced through sensitive and well-designed places, neighbourhoods and developments which will be strongly connected with timely infrastructure. Environmental net gains will be delivered alongside developments and through the enhancement of existing and the creation of new habitats.

‘High’ strategic significance in Nottingham City are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Local Nature Reserves, Local Wildlife Sites, Open Space Network (as defined in the Local Plan), and Ecological Networks (as defined in Greater Nottingham Blue-Green Infrastructure Strategy January 2022 (BGI Strategy (gnplan.org.uk)).

‘Medium’ strategic significance is applied to other areas outside these designations that functionally connects to or links these high significance areas.

Maps can be found on page 200 of the Local Plan.