Hinckley and Bosworth’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.

Hinckley and Bosworth’s pre-application advice service can be found here.

Hinckley and Bosworth is part of the Leicestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy ENV08 of the Local Plan.

All development should provide a measurable 10% net gain in biodiversity on site in the first instance, through biodiversity enhancement off-site, or through off setting where appropriate. All proposals should be supported by evidence to demonstrate a biodiversity net gain using the recognised biodiversity accounting metric and provide details of the long-term maintenance and management of the net gain.

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