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Calculate biodiversity value with the statutory biodiversity metric
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Details how to measure the impact of a habitat or development on biodiversity by using the biodiversity metric.
Document History
Last updated: 26 June 2025 -Updated the proposed introduction date for biodiversity net gain (BNG) for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) from late November 2025 to May 2026. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/biodiversity-metric-calculate-the-biodiversity-net-gain-of-a-project-or-development and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 7 July 2021.
Publisher Information
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK Government department. They are committed to tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and work to secure a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment. This work has formerly been carried out by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of the Environment.
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