2023 Nutrient Neutrality predictions
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Step 1: Nutrient budget calculations
Your first step will be to calculate your nutrient budget using the Nutrient Budget Calculator for your catchment. It is important to identify the full potential of onsite mitigation opportunities. Our team can take you through this process.
Step 2: Identify suitable offsite nutrient mitigation
Greenshank is developing a national network of nutrient credit schemes. We can quickly confirm if we have a nutrient mitigation scheme or will have one in the near future.
Step 3: Agree terms and discharge your requirements
All of our schemes are secured using a Section 106 Agreement. You will simply need to reference our Section 106 Agreement in and the technical documentation underpinning our schemes in your planning application.
Nutrient credit prices vary by area depending on availability, competition and demand. We will always try to be the most competitive in the market as we use very innovative methods of credit creation.
Nutrient Neutrality is a regulatory requirement for obtaining planning permission in certain areas. Ensuring your project meets these standards helps protect the environment, complies with legal obligations, and avoids potential delays or legal challenges. You can check if your development is in a Nutrient Neutrality catchment here.
A nutrient credit represents a quantified reduction in nutrients, measured in kg/year of nutrients reduced by a mitigation scheme. Think carbon credits, but for nitrogen and phosphorus instead, measured in kilos rather than tonnes, and only usable within a defined river catchment. Nutrient credits are created by mitigation schemes and developers purchase them to offset their nutrient budgets.
The cost of nutrient credits can vary depending on the location, availability, and the specific mitigation measures required. Prices are typically influenced by the number of nutrient credits needed for your development to achieve nutrient neutrality.
Yes, we always recommend reviewing an onsite/offsite approach so that you can improve wastewater treatment processes, or implement sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) onsite. These measures can help reduce the nutrient credits needed for your development.
You will need to submit a nutrient budget calculation and a mitigation plan as part of your planning application. This documentation should show how your development will achieve nutrient neutrality, either through purchasing credits or implementing mitigation measures onsite. Often a technical report called a Nutrient Neutrality Assessment and Mitigation Strategy may need to be submitted with your planning application.
If your development does not meet nutrient neutrality requirements, you will not be allowed to progress you planning application. Ensuring compliance is crucial for the timely approval and success of your project.
Nutrient neutrality helps protect local water bodies from nutrient pollution, which can cause harmful algal blooms, reduce biodiversity, and degrade water quality. By adhering to these regulations, developers contribute to the preservation and restoration of vital ecosystems.
Buy BNG Units from one of our national network of habitat Banks. All are secured with Section 106 Agreements
Get best in class on-site nutrient reduction stratagy for your site and reduce you nutrirent credit costs.
Our technical team can develop drainage plans ensuring best practice nutrient removal throughout.
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Greenshank Environmental is committed to helping the development sector respond to the requirements of Nutrient Neutrality: the requirement for new development to offset the nutrient pollution it creates.