What is BS 42020 about?
BS 42020 gives recommendations and provides guidance primarily for ensuring that actions and decisions taken at each stage of the planning process are informed by sufficient and appropriate ecological information.
Who is BS 42020 for?
BS 42020 on practice for planning and development of biodiversity is useful for:
- Professionals working in the fields of ecology
- Architecture or landscape architecture
- Civil engineers
- Forest sectors
- Arboriculture sectors
- An individual who does the survey
- Construction industries
Why should you use BS 42020?
Biodiversity is essential for sustainable development and human well-being.
BS 42020 provides recommendations to a rigorous professional, scientific, and consistent approach to gathering, analysing, presenting, and reviewing ecological information at key stages of the planning application process. This will help you in the planning and development of biodiversity.
BS 42020 intends ecological data, helps you in assessment and design of conservation measures for planning decisions to produce and seek to promote transparency and consistency in the quality and appropriateness of ecological information submitted with planning applications and applications for other regulatory approvals, give planning authorities and other regulatory bodies greater confidence in the information when they consider proposals for development or land management that potentially affect biodiversity and also encourage proportionality and a good environmental legacy following development.
