Here you will find CIEEM’s response to the UK Government’s Consultation Improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and brownfield development. Please use this response to inform your own response to this important consultation, ensuring that through BNG development has a measurably positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity, compared to what was there before development.   

For CIEEM’s Shorthand response to the consultation (containing short answers questions posed by Defra) see here: Shorthand CIEEM Response to the Consultation on Improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and brownfield development

This response was developed by members from the Strategic Policy Panel and England Policy Working Group