Biodiversity Net Gain - Financial Viability Impact Assessment

The over-arching aim of the project is to examine and test whether or not there are particular housing development scenarios where achieving a biodiversity net gain outcome would compromise project financial viability. Working with a combination of published and business data (from current or past projects) the project will: - establish baseline costings - explore a series of counter-factual scenarios to test the impact of biodiversity net gain on the financial viability of these projects. The project will identify and analyse the actual or likely impact of biodiversity net gain upon housing development financial viability in the most commonly found development scenarios in England. This is likely to include; - urban & non-urban developments - high density and low density developments - development in high economic growth and low economic growth areas - development in affluent and within deprived regions