FOI request (FOIR-636117024)

Biodiversity net gain

Requested Mon 05 August 2024
Responded Tue 10 September 2024

My 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 a 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?

Response

The Freedom of Information is based on recorded information held by a local authority, it is not a tool to ask questions.

1. This is a general question so falls outside the remit of the Act.

2. This is a general question so falls outside the remit of the Act.

3. This is a general question so falls outside the remit of the Act.

4. This is a general question so falls outside the remit of the Act.

5. Information not held.

6. Copies of S106 agreements can be found online through public access at:

https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/

Please use the advanced search for major applications. We are not aware of any with biodiversity net gain (BNG).

7. Zero, we have have not received BNG contributions through S106 as yet.

8. Zero, we have have not received BNG contributions through S106 as yet.