Error - gain sites must be positive ▲

Raised when

An off-site gain site on the Off-site gain site summary shows a negative unit change: its post-intervention units are below its baseline.

To clear it

A gain site must gain. Check the off-site baseline against its creation and enhancement rows for that reference.

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.