Breakdown of BNG monies, habitat type and units
Request received: 5 December 2025
1. Please provide the revenue and volumes of biodiversity units sold for each biodiversity gain site:
1.1. The total amount of money received by your organisation from the sale of biodiversity units (or credits) arising from land it owns or manages for BNG purposes.
1.2. The total number of biodiversity units (or credits) sold. With the data being:
1.2.1. broken down by financial year (or calendar year, if that is how the data is held), and
1.2.2. broken down by habitat type as recorded for BNG purposes (e.g. habitat category/metric habitat type), and where possible, broken down by biodiversity gain site.
2. Please provide any information you hold about the pricing of biodiversity credits for different habitat types, including:
2.1. The price(s) per unit charged for different habitat types or categories (e.g. baseline price lists, internal pricing schedules, or similar documents).
2.2. Any information showing how prices differ between sites (if applicable). Where possible, please indicate the time period during which each price (or price list) was in effect (e.g. by year or date range).
Responded: 9 December 2025
1.The council does not collect or have any responsibility to collect such information.
2.The council does not collect or have any responsibility to collect such information.
The Council considers that the requested information falls within the Environmental Information Regulations (“EIR”), which relate to information on activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors of the environment.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act;
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 12(4)(a) – Information Not Held
c) State why the exemption applies:
Regulation 12 (4) a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that (a) it does not hold that information when an applicant’s request is received.