What is BS 8683 - Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain about?
Biodiversity (biological diversity) provides humanity with essential amenities such as carbon storage, clean air, and food, plus it contributes to our wellbeing. There’s an urgent need to reverse the current rate of loss of biodiversity.
BS 8683 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.
Who is BS 8683 - Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain for?
BS 8683 is aimed at any class or scale of built environment development or land/estate management, users will be:
Design and pre-construction professionals
Sub-contractors and clients
Procurement and contract specialists
Project managers
Project ecologists
Local authority planners
Quality managers
EIA coordinators, environment and sustainability managers, landscape architects
Why should you use BS 8683 - Process for designing and implementing Biodiversity Net Gain ?
BS 8683 specifies requirements for a process to design and implement biodiversity net gain (BNG) for development projects. It doesn’t cover the actual delivery of BNG, but provides a framework to demonstrate that a project has followed a process based on UK-wide good practice.
BS 8683 provides good practice requirements from design to legacy, providing consistency at every level. It will help users meet UK Government requirements to demonstrate a 10 percent increase in biodiversity on or nea...