Flags · one of 98
Error in Areas ▲
Statutory metric 1.0.4 · ▲ input error · raised at A-1 On-Site Habitat Baseline!W11, D-1 Off-Site Habitat Baseline!Z11
Raised when
Area (or length) retained plus enhanced exceeds the parcel's total area (or length).
To clear it
Retained + enhanced ≤ total, always. The rest is lost. Check the three cells on the row.
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.