{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/schedule-2A/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008/schedule-2A/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/29",
  "legislation_title": "Planning Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Development not covered by a national policy statement",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, at the time this Schedule comes into force or any subsequent time, no national policy statement sets out policy in respect of a description of development to which this Schedule applies.\n(2) The Secretary of State may issue a biodiversity gain statement in relation to that description of development.\n(3) Before issuing a biodiversity gain statement under sub-paragraph (2) the Secretary of State must consult such persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(4) The Secretary of State must keep a statement issued under sub-paragraph (2) under review and may amend or revoke it at any time.\n(5) The Secretary of State must—\n(a) lay a statement issued under sub-paragraph (2) before Parliament, and\n(b) publish it in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(6) References in sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) to statements issued under sub-paragraph (2) include amended versions of such statements.\n(7) If after a statement is issued under sub-paragraph (2) a national policy statement relating to the description of development is designated under section 5, the Secretary of State must—\n(a) include a biodiversity gain statement in relation to that description of development in the national policy statement, and\n(b) revoke the statement issued under sub-paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (7.5.2026) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), s. 147(3), Sch. 15 para. 5 (with s. 144); S.I. 2026/492, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/29/schedule/2A/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:38.131823+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."
}