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Green infrastructure and biodiversity
This SPD will provide formal guidance on Craven Local Plan Policy ENV5: Green Infrastructure, ENV4: Biodiversity and other associated policies
This online resource paper provides information about the Act, which sets priorities for biodiversity, air quality, water and waste
This online resource paper provides information about ENG, which the government is exploring as part of the 25 Year Environment Plan
This online resource paper provides information about Natural England's free accounting tool for calculating biodiversity net gain
This online resource paper provides information about Natural England's free accounting tool for calculating biodiversity net gain in small developments
This online resource paper provides information about Biodiversity Offsetting, which seeks to compensate for unavoidable damage to biodiversity in one place with biodiversity net gain in another
This online resource paper provides information about Conservation Covenants, in which landowners can agree to do or not do something on their land in the interests of conservation
This online resource paper provides information about Species Conservation and Protected Site Strategies, which aim to find better ways of fulfilling existing legal obligations and improving conservation status
This online resource paper provides information about Wildlife Corridors, which act as links of varying size and composition between habitats, allowing wildlife to move freely and safely without threat from predators or traffic
This online resource paper provides information about LNRSs, which are new spatial strategies for nature intended to cover the whole of England and to drive more coordinated, practical and focussed action to help nature
This online resource paper provides information about the Mitigation Hierarchy, which is a widely used tool for limiting as far as possible the negative impacts of development on biodiversity