FI17246

Request

1. Has the authority adopted any policy, guidance, or formal position relating to the preferred location of off-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units? 

2. If the answer to Question 1 is yes, does the authority require or normally expect off-site BNG units to be located:
• within the local planning authority area;
• within the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) area; or
• within another specified geographic area (please specify).

3. How many Biodiversity Net Gain habitat banks registered on the national Biodiversity Gain Sites Register are located within the authority's administrative area, according to the information held by the authority? (Please state the number as at the date of your response.)

4. Has the authority established, or is it in the process of establishing, a Biodiversity Net Gain habitat bank on land that it owns or controls? If yes, please state how many.

5. Does the council have an adopted or emerging policy which requires above 10% biodiversity net gain? If so, please specify whether this is on all sites or particular types of sites.

Response

1. Yes

2. As follows:

• Yes
• Yes (‘within Kent and Medway’).
• Yes. Dover District Local Plan Policy NE1 Dover District Local Plan to 2040 has a local locational hierarchy: within district – within neighbouring LPA - within Kent and Medway – within North Downs or North Kent Plain National Character Area.

3. Two.

4. No.

5. No.