Adur’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.

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

Adur is part of the West Sussex Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Information can be found here.

Specific BNG Requirements are set out in the Call for Green Sites.

In the first instance, and in accordance with the mitigation hierarchy, development should seek to avoid adverse impacts to biodiversity, or minimise them by appropriate on-site mitigation. Where these options are not possible, offsetting of biodiversity loss and achieving 3 net gains for biodiversity can be achieved offsite, with agreement with the local planning authority.

The Call for Green Sites is an opportunity to identify land which could be suitable for providing Biodiversity Net Gain offsetting as part of a wider offsetting scheme for developments across the district. This could involve the allocation of sites for the purpose of biodiversity offsetting mitigation.

Each offsetting site would need to be available to be managed for Biodiversity Net Gain purposes for a minimum of 30 years (in line with the current recommendations in the draft Environment Bill).

The Local Plan is currently being updated.

​Please note that the resources on this page are purely advisory. Documents set out may be out of date. You should engage with the LPA as soon as possible to ensure local requirements are incorporated into your BNG proposals.
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Last updated: August 2024