The Biodiversity Gain Site Register Regulations 2024 (2024 No. 45).

These Regulations make provision for and in relation to a register of biodiversity gain sites (the biodiversity gain site register) and are made Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”), which makes provision for the grant of planning permission for a development in England to be subject to a condition to secure than the biodiversity gain objective in paragraph 2 of that Schedule is met in relation to the development. Regulations 3 and 4 require Natural England to establish and maintain the biodiversity gain site register and to ensure that information in it is accessible to the public. Regulations 5 to 11 concern the process of registration of land in the biodiversity gain site register; Regulation 6 deals with eligibility of land to be registered; Regulations 7 and 8 provide for applications to register land; Regulations 9 to 11 provide concern determination of such applications. Regulations 12 to 16 apply where land is already registered in the biodiversity gain site register in relation to a particular conservation covenant. Regulations 17 to 23 regulate amendment of information on register, on requested and on the register operator’s own initiative. Regulations 24 to 29 provide for the removal of entries from the register, on application to the register operator and on the register operator’s own initiative. Regulations 30 to 35 provide for appeals on decisions.