BNG- Replacement Agricultural Building

[Owen Piper]

Hello, thanks in advance for any replies. 

Looking to replace a redundant livestock building with a new livestock building...on the same footprint. cannot use PD as its within 400m of a residential dwelling. Wondering if we will need to provide 10% BNG along with the application or whether the fact that its a replacement might help our cause, such that if the baseline ecology of the site is 0...multiplying it up by 10% is also 0. 

Where do we stand and how might we need to address it in the planning application? 

Many thanks. 

[Ian Walmsley]

You may not be subject to bng if on the same footprint. There would (I assume) be no habitat where the old barn is. 

The following is an exemption 

Development with no impact on priority habitat and where impacts fall below the specified ‘de minimis’ threshold – less than 25 square metres (e.g. 5m by 5m) of habitat, or 5 metres of linear habitats such as hedgerows. 

Just a thought.