“Broadly, the changes only apply to new applications for planning permission made from 6 August. To note, planning permissions and applications for permission already submitted will continue to be subject to existing BNG legislation. ”
We are pleased to announce we have published and laid before parliament regulations which set in motion changes to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for projects requiring planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act.
These are the first batch of changes resulting from our BNG consultation last year, which we announced in our government response published in April 2026, and covered in our recent BNG blog post.