State visit
The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and Mrs Brigitte Macron will visit Windsor, under invite from the King, from Tuesday 8 July to Thursday 10 July 2025. Find out more.
Please may I make a Freedom of Information request relating to biodiversity net gain.
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?