Net Biodiversity Gain
Received: 11 June 2025
Dear FOI Officer, Verna is working with a number of partners to build an understanding of how LPAs across the country are implementing BNG and other ecological considerations within the planning process. We appreciate that this FOI request comprises a number of questions and will take some time for you to answer, and also that LPAs across the country are managing large workloads, often with understaffed teams. In return, we commit to sharing back the report along with tangible and practical 'best practices' - tailored for your LPA. We are also looking to develop practice advice on BNG with the RTPI for local authority planners across England, and will explore further to make the analysis of this study helpful for the broader community. We hope these resources will be helpful for you and your team, and that they will save you significantly more time than it takes to answer these questions. We'd also like to invite your ecologists and Planning Officers to sign up to a webinar in September where we will share these analyses and best practices. Please can you share this sign up link with the relevant colleagues. Please return your completed FOI response using the spreadsheet attached within 20 working days of receipt of this email (or by the statutory deadline if later) to surveys@verna.earth. If you have any questions about the study, the FOI questions, or how the information will be handled, please contact me directly at surveys@verna.earth.See attached spreadsheet for 32 questions requesting information
Outcome / Documents
- Response (all information to be supplied) - application/pdf - Download