Dartmoor National Park’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.

Dartmoor National Park’s pre-application advice service can be foundhere.

Dartmoor National Park is part of the Devon Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in Policy 2.3.25 of the Local Plan (drafted September 2019).

2.3.25 Development involving 2 homes, 100m2 of non-residential floorspace, or a site area of 0.2 hectares, or more, will be required to compensate for any habitat losses and deliver 10% biodiversity net gain. Development not involving any loss of habitat will not be required to deliver net gain, e.g. changes of use. The value of existing habitats and the compensation required will be calculated in accordance with Natural England’s biodiversity metric.

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