Birmingham’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.

Birmingham’s pre-application advice service can be found here.

Birmingham is part of the West Midlands Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in the BNG Documents.

For the purposes of BNG, biodiversity is measured in a standardised way using the statutory biodiversity metric tool.

The metric calculates the biodiversity value of habitats in “biodiversity units”. The number of biodiversity units a habitat contains depends on different factors:

See also the Development Plan.

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