Biodiversity net gain is making small housebuilding schemes a nightmare
SME housebuilders developing sites of less than ten homes are finding biodiversity net gain rules so complicated and costly they are leaving the industry. The rubric for improving or creating new habitats went live on the 2nd of April for small sites under the Environment Act, 2021. National Federation of Builders, NFB, policy and market insight head Rico Wojtulewicz said: “It’s just not delivering. There’s not enough off-site credits available and price gouging is going on.” For example, if a [...]