{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cottam-solar-project-order-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cottam-solar-project-order-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/943",
  "legislation_title": "The Cottam Solar Project Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cottam-solar-project-order-2024",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Biodiversity net gain",
  "text": "(1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a biodiversity net gain strategy has been submitted to and approved by each relevant planning authority, in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body.\n(2) The biodiversity net gain strategy must include details of how the strategy will secure a minimum of 76.8% biodiversity net gain in habitat units, a minimum of 56.1% biodiversity net gain in hedgerow units and a minimum of 10% biodiversity net gain in river units for all of the authorised development during the operation of the authorised development, and the metric that has been used to calculate that those percentages will be reached.\n(3) The biodiversity net gain strategy must be substantially in accordance with the outline landscape and ecological management plan and must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 in force at 27.9.2024, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/943/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:36.000448+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}