'Completed by' and 'Date of metric completion' fields must be filled in ▲

Raised when

Start!F16 (Completed by) or Start!F17 (Date of metric completion) is empty. This is the only Start-page field the tool enforces.

To clear it

Fill both. Use the name of the person who takes responsibility for the metric; put their qualifications in the report, not here.

Also covered by the statutory metric user guide, troubleshooting Table F.

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.