Content tagged with: biodiversity

• Submitting Biological Records

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/submitting-biological-records

  Doncaster Local Records Centre (DLRC) welcomes records from all recorders and of all species, no matter how common or widespread. We need your records to be able to build a complete and up-to-date image of the state of wildlife in Doncaster Borough. This helps us monitor the state of the environment and support decision making.

• Biodiversity

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/environmental/biodiversity

  Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth – from the smallest insect to the largest tree, and the natural systems that support them. Biodiversity is vital for our quality of life, from the sight and sound of a bird in the garden, to a life-saving drug from a plant. It is important for its own sake and because it provides benefits to society (known as ecosystem services).

• Doncaster biodiversity action plan

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/environmental/doncaster-biodiversity-action-plan

  Doncaster Biodiversity Action Partnership has produced a Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the borough.

• Local wildlife and geological sites

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/local-wildlife-and-geological-sites

  Local Sites are Doncaster's locally and regionally important wildlife and geological sites. They are designated to recognise, and help conserve, their special wildlife and/or geological features, and their contribution to wider ecological networks and ‘green and blue infrastructure’.

• Biodiversity Net Gain Supplementary Planning Document

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/biodiversity-net-gain-supplementary-planning-document

  Following public consultation the Council has now adopted a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) on Biodiversity Net Gain. This SPD provides further guidance for developers, applicants and ecological consultants on how planning applications can satisfy the requirement for delivering Biodiversity Net Gain within Doncaster.

• What is Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)?

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/mandatory-biodiversity-net-gain-bng

  Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is an approach to development that seeks to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was before development occurred.

• Trees for Doncaster

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/environmental/trees-for-doncaster

  “Trees are essential to the future of the planet.” - Sir David Attenborough

• Climate change

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/environmental/climate-change

  Tackling the impact of climate change in Doncaster.

• Doncaster Local Records Centre - Privacy Notice

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/the-council-democracy/doncaster-local-records-centre-privacy-notice

  This Privacy Notice sets out what you need to know about how the Doncaster Local Records Centre (DLRC) at the City of Doncaster Council (the Council) will use your information that you send to us in respect of