Cambridgeshire and Peterborough councils were the first in England to produce Biodiversity Checklists giving guidelines for planners, developers and householders on how to provide for the needs of wildlife and their habitats.
Cambridgeshire County Council produced and funded the report, endorsed by Government Office for East of England, on behalf of the Biodiversity Partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 2001.

Click on the Section Title below to download the relevant part of the Landuse planners checklist or click here to download the whole document (4.33 Mb).

Checklists for householders and developers can be found on the right hand side (Publications).

In 2007 Essex Biodiversity Project have produced a very useful interactive guide for planners to integrate biodiversity into developments (Links).

Please note: a condition for using or referring to the document below for your own purposes, is that you acknowledge the Biodiversity Partnership for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough for producing the document.