Yes ⚠

Raised when

Start!F23: the Irreplaceable Habitats sheet contains an irreplaceable habitat at baseline (any of its four totals is non-zero).

To clear it

Not an error. It tells the reviewer that irreplaceable habitat is present and that bespoke compensation is needed for any loss — the metric does not compensate for it.

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.