Milton Keynes’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.

Milton Keynes’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

Milton Keynes is part of the Buckinghamshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be foundhere.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy 4.13 of the Local Plan (adopted June 2021).

4.13. Where proposed developments impact upon a Priority Habitat or notable and red list species the Council will expect the ecological impact to the habitat or species to be fully assessed and reported. Where those impacts would lead to significant harm to biodiversity, the mitigation hierarchy set out in paragraph 175 a) of the NPPF should demonstrably have been applied and an overall Biodiversity Net Gain delivered in accordance with paragraph 170(d) of the NPPF.

See also the BNG Page.

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