The Gloucestershire Nature and Climate Fund is not currently in a position to provide sales of less than 1 biodiversity unit, due to the associated legal and administration costs for landowners and broker. Once BNG policy is more embedded in LPA practice and sales procedures are more straight forward, we hope to be able to…
Do you need to buy BNG units? If you have to spend the money anyway – make sure you’re buying units that are doing some good💡 4 good reasons to buy BNG units through GNCF: 1. We’re a not-for-profit. No investors and no shareholders to pay back Any money we make, surplus to business running…
Biodiversity net gain is a new and untested policy. While a few counties have been running a local net gain policy for several years, the new biodiversity metric and rules will bring challenges that can only be worked out in collaboration. Local Planning Authorities in Gloucestershire, landowners, Natural England, Defra and developers need to work…