On-site net gain is less than target set ⚠

Raised when

Headline Results!K16: the on-site % change is below the Start-page target — but off-site units may still carry the scheme.

To clear it

A warning, not a refusal: the total in row 51 is what counts. Explain in the report how the shortfall is met.

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.