Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’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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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is part of the Greater London Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be foundhere.

Specific BNG requirements are set out in Policy 4.17 of the New Local Plan Review (consultation September 2020).

A new Environmental Bill 2019-21 is expected to become an Act of Parliament (law) later this year and will place a requirement for all developments to provide a biodiversity net gain. This means that all developments will need to improve the biodiversity onsite. For our borough with a largely built-up character this could mean looking for other solutions where there is not sufficient land on the ground. This could include provision of green roofs, green walls, creating bee superhighways providing a link for pollinators. For our largest sites such as Kensal Canalside and Earl’s Court we would be looking at maximising these opportunities.

See also the new Local Plan.

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