ERROR- Site too large for metric - USE MAIN METRIC ▲

Raised when

Desktop Assessment: the site fails the small sites metric's limits — area at or above 10,000 m² (5,000 m² for a residential site with an unknown number of dwellings), "Over 9 dwellings" on a residential or mixed site, or a designated site, priority habitat or European protected species on site (D7, D9, D11, D12, D16).

To clear it

Use the main statutory metric. The cell the string sits in names the cause; the LPA will not accept the small sites metric for this site.

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.