Note; Habitat selected has a time to target condition greater than 30 years. Non standard agreement may be required

Raised when

A note cell in the sheet's header rows (A-2 N2, A-3 AD2, B-2 M3, the others in row 2) counts '30+' in the standard and the final time-to-target columns and writes this when either count is above zero. One note per sheet, not a mark on the row; the 30+ multiplier (0.3198) is applied regardless. On A-2 and F-2 the string is written without the ⚠.

To clear it

Find the row whose final time to target reads 30+. Habitats secured for 30 years may not reach target condition inside the agreement; expect the LPA to ask for a longer legal agreement (the guide says so for woodland, p. 19) or a different target condition.

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.