How will your Urban Greening Factor LPG help to increase biodiversity and canopy cover in London?

Alongside London Plan Policy G5 Urban Greening, my Urban Greening Factor (UGF) LPG will ensure that major developments contribute to expanding London’s green infrastructure to help the city become greener, more biodiverse and more climate resilient. The guidance sets out how to apply the UGF tool to measure the quantity and quality of new greening that major developments propose, benchmarked against target scores, to ensure that the new greening delivered is sufficient, high quality and locally relevant. The UGF includes woodlands, trees and a range of habitats for wildlife in the greening options that developers can use to meet the target scores.

I have also published other information and tools to support developers and boroughs to implement the UGF LPG. This includes a green infrastructure focus map and a tree canopy cover map, as well as guidance on how to design urban greening to deliver biodiversity net gains.