Biodiversity net gain
Case reference EIR2024/01326
Received 2 August 2024
Published 9 August 2024
Request
Please may I make a Freedom of Information request relating to biodiversity net gain. An email response is preferred. My request is to answer the following questions:
1. Are you bringing forward your own habitat bank for the purposes of offering offsite biodiversity units?
2. If so, at what stage of development is it?
3. Have you decided methodology for pricing units yet?
4. If the answer to Q3 is yes, what is it and is it expected to cover the long-term cost of habitat delivery?
5. Please supply a full, redacted or template version of any s106 agreement for such an LPA habitat bank, if it is exists.
6. Please supply copies of all completed section 106 agreements for other habitat banks in your LPA area.
7. What is the total value of biodiversity offsetting contributions paid to the authority over the previous two years?
8. Of the total value given in Q7, how much has been deployed into habitat creation, enhancement and management and how much remains unspent?
Response
1. Are you bringing forward your own habitat bank for the purposes of offering offsite biodiversity units?
A: The Service area have confirmed that there are no plans at the current time.
2. If so, at what stage of development is it?
A: N/A
3. Have you decided methodology for pricing units yet?
A: N/A
4. If the answer to Q3 is yes, what is it and is it expected to cover the long-term cost of habitat delivery?
A: N/A
5. Please supply a full, redacted or template version of any s106 agreement for such an LPA habitat bank, if it is exists.
A: The Service area have confirmed that they have not developed a template at the current time.
6. Please supply copies of all completed section 106 agreements for other habitat banks in your LPA area.
A: The Service area have confirmed that they have not currently signed any S106 agreements for habitat banks in our LPA area.
7. What is the total value of biodiversity offsetting contributions paid to the authority over the previous two years?
A: The Service area have confirmed that they have not taken any offsetting contributions up to this point.
8. Of the total value given in Q7, how much has been deployed into habitat creation, enhancement and management and how much remains unspent?
A: N/A
Documents
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