Change in broad habitat type detected. Check compliance with guidance ⚠

Raised when

An enhancement row changes the broad habitat type (say, grassland to heathland).

To clear it

Enhancement normally keeps the broad habitat; a change may need to be entered as loss plus creation. Check the user guide's enhancement rules and justify.

See every flag your metric raised, on one page. Drop the workbook on the Check page and Quadrat gathers each ▲ and ⚠ it wrote, with these notes beside it, plus what a planning officer will ask that the metric never flags.

This is one of 98 flag strings the GOV.UK statutory biodiversity metric 1.0.4 and small sites metric 1.2.3 write into cells. Explained from the workbooks' own formulas; where the statutory metric user guide's troubleshooting table covers a flag, the page says so. Quadrat is not affiliated with Defra, Natural England or any planning authority.