South Staffordshire’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.

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

South Staffordshire is part of the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy 12.2 of the Publication Plan (adopted 2022).

12.2 National legislation and policy are promoting an integrated approach to nature conservation to develop a National Recovery Network (NRN) of habitats with the aim of reversing the long-established trends of habitat and species loss. In addition to protecting designated sites, new development will be expected to contribute a biodiversity net gain (Policy NB2) as a means of compensating for losses arising from new development schemes. In addition, the protection and creation of multifunctional Green Infrastructure (Policy HC19) has the potential to support the creation of green linkages to sustain an expanding and robust interconnected network of habitats.

See also the BNG Page

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