Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain BS 8683 2021
Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain. Specification BS 8683:2021 is a new British Standard that sets out a process for implementing biodiversity net gain (BNG), which is an approach to development and land management that leaves biodiversity in a measurably better state than before.
The BS 8683:2021 standard is aimed at any class or scale of built environment development or land/estate management and for a variety of users including; design and pre-construction professionals, sub-contractors and clients, procurement and contract specialists, project managers, project ecologists, local authority planners, quality managers, Ecological Impact Assessment coordinators, environment and sustainability managers and landscape architects.
The BS 8683:2021 standard can be used to :
- "Demonstrate delivery of industry good practice
- Give clients, commissioning agencies, and other stakeholders confidence that processes are in place that will help secure voluntary or relevant local planning or contractual requirements relating to biodiversity net gain outcomes
- Ensure that internal processes and procedures are in place to help deliver BNG as stipulated by commissioning agencies, clients, and consenting bodies
- Help evidence the satisfactory discharge of planning conditions or the meeting of appropriate regulatory requirements relating to biodiversity net gain outcomes
- Help differentiate and avoid accusations of ‘greenwash’ that could compromise biodiversity net gain approaches
- Help enhance consistency across projects for organisations running multiple projects, minimising the risk of error and driving consistency of approach
- Enable planning authorities and clients to specify the consistent delivery of biodiversity net gain processes amongst developers or contractors operating within their territory or on their behalf
- Add to brand value by demonstrating that the organisation delivering to the standard is following an evidenced and credible approach and has robust processes in place"
For further information, a preview and to purchase visit the following link "Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain. Specification BS 8683:2021
This article is based on the public standard page from BSI entitled "BS 8683:2021. Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain. Specification". Published August 31, 2021.
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