Many planning authorities are already implementing the proposals in the expectation that the Environment Bill will be passed.
"At least people who are living in new housing estates or occupying new offices will know that somewhere, hopefully close by, there's a really flourishing new wildlife habitat to compensate for that," he said.Many local planning authorities are already implementing the proposals in the expectation that the Environment Bill will be passed.
"You cannot offset nature from a community which is dependent upon it," said Ci Davis, from a group called Rebuilding Environment and Community in Hoyland.A multi-million pound development on the outskirts of Barnsley shows the scheme can cause anger The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says the system will be set up to incentivise developers to improve habitats on site or in the local area, while the calculator will make it more expensive to offset habit loss in a different local authority area.
"We've been working with the biodiversity metric for a couple of years now with some of our clients and the system is working," she said
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