Standard

BS 42020:2013

Biodiversity. Code of practice for planning and development

Current, Under Review

Published:

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.  

 

Product Details
Descriptors
Assessed quality
Physical planning
Certification (approval)
Environmental engineering
Calibration
Organizations
Approval organizations
Approved organizations
Construction works
Quality auditing
Capability approval
Ecology
Quality control
Conformity
Personnel
Inspection
Inspectorates
Nature conservation
Testing organizations
Acceptance (approval)
ICS Codes
13.020.01 Environment and environmental protection in general
91.020 Physical planning. Town planning
Committee
BDY/1
International relationships
ISBN
978 0 580 77917 6
Publisher
BSI