Designing Biodiversity Baseline Surveys for BNG: Method Selection, Effort Allocation, and Avoiding Common Pitfalls
Fewer than half of BNG submissions rejected by local planning authorities in the past two years were turned away because of calculation errors. The far more common reason was a flawed baseline — surveys that missed habitat parcels, misclassified condition, or were conducted at the wrong time of year. For ecologists and developers navigating mandatory […]
