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    What is the Joe's Blooms biodiversity tool?

    With Joe’s Blooms’ web tools1, planning applicants can easily check for and fulfil their biodiversity obligations. From 12 February 2024, the government is introducing new biodiversity net gain requirements for most planning applications in England. Our easy-to-use web tools guarantee your project’s statutory compliance, streamlining the planning process whilst helping you to make cost-effective and environmentally friendly decisions.


    What does the service do?

    Our easy-to-use service lets you:

    • Find out which requirements apply to your specific site or project
    • Streamline the process of surveying your site
    • Discover possible options for compliance and assess their cost and effectiveness through our simple step-by-step-step process
    • Automatically generate the mandatory documents your planning application needs, tailored to your project and guaranteed to be statutorily compliant

    Learn more about Joe’s Blooms2, our story and how we can help, on our website: www.joesblooms.com3.


    Training opportunities


    As the obligation to specify biodiversity net gain in planning is completely new, we understand that the requirements may not be the easiest to understand or navigate. That’s why Joe’s Blooms1 will be offering regular online training sessions to showcase how the new system works, what the rules require and what steps you need to take to comply.

    To stay updated with all the latest training opportunities from Joe's Blooms, please sign up using the link below.

    Sign up
    1. https://www.joesblooms.com/complete-your-bng-application
    1. https://www.joesblooms.com/complete-your-bng-application
    2. https://www.joesblooms.com/complete-your-bng-application
    3. https://www.joesblooms.com/complete-your-bng-application

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    The Planning Portal is delivered by PortalPlanQuest Limited which is a joint venture between TerraQuest Solutions Limited and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG). All content © 2024 Planning Portal.