ERROR - This metric still includes losses of very high distinctiveness habitat. Losses of very high distinctiveness units must be compensated for through this metric or through bespoke compensation ▲

Raised when

Credits Summary: the area or watercourse trading summary still has a negative balance in the very-high-distinctiveness band. Statutory credits cannot buy these units.

To clear it

Very-high-distinctiveness losses must be compensated in the metric (like for like) or by bespoke compensation agreed with the consenting body.

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.