Amber Valley’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.

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

Amber Valley is part of the Derbyshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy EN9 of the Draft Local Plan (drafted February 2024).

Development proposals (unless exempt) will be required to achieve at least 10% biodiversity net gain using the Government’s Biodiversity Metric. Net gain is expected to be provided on site but where it can be demonstrated that this would not be possible or desirable, it should be provided on one or more sites within the Borough (unless this is demonstrated not to be possible) that would deliver local priorities for biodiversity, having regard to the Derbyshire Natural Capital Strategy, the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Derbyshire, the Lowland Derbyshire Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) (or its successors) and other locally identified priorities, or as a last resort, through national credits.

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