Designations
Ancient woodland
What GainScout tells you when it finds this
Designations · warns
This is ancient woodland — an irreplaceable habitat with strong protection in planning policy. It sits outside the BNG metric, so it can't be created or enhanced to generate biodiversity units.
Checked against planning.data.gov.uk (Natural England) the moment you run a check, and stamped with the date.
Why it matters for Biodiversity Net Gain
A finding here usually limits what a BNG scheme can claim on this land, or adds consents and conditions before any work can start. Better to know from your desk than after a site visit.
A check also asks the other 20 counted sources at the same time, so this finding always arrives in context.