Sustainable Development Programme. The Sustainable Development (SD) Programme covers extensive work involving statutory and non-statutory land use planning activity (including Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), green infrastructure and wider environmental net gains) and all of our wildlife licensing activity. It also includes our work on marine planning, marine net gain, a coherent Marine Protected Areas Network and an ecosystem approach to the management of the marine environment. This is a fundamentally critical and statutory area of Natural England business helping to shape gains for places, habitats and species. We strive to continue to work towards a more proactive and strategic approach to planning and licensing work; we believe partnership working and early engagement in strategic plans ad projects is the best way to deliver more for the natural environment in the long term. Our resources are used to best effect to support operational delivery locally and in central teams, both directly, through additional staff, and indirectly, by putting in place a range of reforms to help target our resources on the interventions that hold the greatest gains. We are keen to ensure the direction of travel for the SD Programme is informed by the reality of our grass roots challenges and opportunities.
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Sources: Framework Agreement, Framework Agreement, Framework Agreement