East Hampshire’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.

East Hampshire’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

East Hampshire is part of the Hampshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy 6.12-6.13 of the Biodiversity Guidance.

6.12. The process of trying to achieve net gain is based upon a very simple process:

▪ Understand existing biodiversity value (baseline)

▪ Assess impacts (what is being lost?)

▪ Mitigate (using mitigation hierarchy)

▪ Understand residual biodiversity value

▪ Add net gain

6.13. In order to provide a measurable gain in biodiversity it will be necessary to understand the existing biodiversity value of a site and compare this to the expected value after development has occurred. One way of measuring biodiversity value is through the use of a metric. The most widely used metric is the DEFRA Biodiversity Metric 2.0.

See also the Local Plan. See also the BNG Page.

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