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BNG Exemption Statement Bristol

BNG Exemption Statement Bristol

Do you need to fill out your BNG Exemption Statement in Bristol. We can do that.

What is It?

It companies 4 questions:

  • 1. Does the development qualify as a ‘householder application’?
  • 2. Is the development undertaken solely or mainly for fulfilling the BNG condition of another development?
  • 3. Does the development consist of no more than 9 self-build or custom build dwellings on a site no larger than 0.5 hectares?
  • 4. Does the development impact less than 25 square metres of onsite habitat or less than 5 metres of onsite linear habitat, and does not impact a priority habitat?

You go from one step top the next, and if you come out clear then you don’t need to to BNG.

Exemption Statement

This involves filling out various section of a form. Find the below hints on how to do this. Bristol City Council have provided an example you can follow.

5 – Habitats regulation wording.

6 – Go through the checks as shown at beginning of the form,

7 – Take Photos, or use history function on google earth to show ground cover over year on site. Overlay the site boundary on to these plans so you can see what the areas involved are and how big they are.

8 – Talk about how you will install bat boxes and that short of thing.

Get Us to Do it For You

No job too small for us, and we expect you would rather not do this sort of thing. Please let us do it for you, it will not cost much and you will have more time for living life (to the max :-/)

Contact Us

Email:

swenviro+bristol@gmail.com

Telephone:

01173 270 092

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) London

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) London

If asked to describe where in London you might think a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) would be least likely to be required I expect a few people might say Trafalgar Square.

Admiral Horatio Nelson atop Nelson’s Column

Which is why we were surprised to conducting a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) in Trafalgar Square, London just last week (June 2025).

So what did we find?

  • limited habitat, even for breeding birds such as Feral pigeons Columba livia
  • [project] does not impact any priority habitats, it involves only sealed surfaces with zero biodiversity value

So there we are the pigeons got a mention at least.

If you require a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA)  for a site within the greater london area, we can provide a quotation.

Please contact us. Quickest way to get a quote is to email over a set of plans.

Image: Beata May, CC BY-SA 3.0