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Land Use and Ecology

Category overview

Weightings			Minimum standards
Fully fitted 10%	Shell only 13%	Shell and core 11%	LE 03

Summary

This category encourages sustainable land use, habitat protection and creation, and improvement of long term biodiversity for the building’s site and surrounding land. Issues in this section relate to the reuse of brownfield sites or those of low ecological value, mitigation and enhancement of ecology and long term biodiversity management.

Category summary table

Issue ID	Issue name	Credits	Credit summary
LE 01	Site selection	2	Recognition of the reuse of previously developed and contaminated land where appropriate remediation has taken place.
LE 02	Ecological value of site and protection of ecological features	2	Recognition of the use of sites of ‘low ecological value’, and the protection of existing features prior to and during site operations.
LE 03	Minimising impact on existing site ecology	2	Recognition of steps taken to avoid impacts on existing site ecology.
LE 04	Enhancing site ecology	2	Recognition of steps taken to enhance site ecology through the advice of a suitably qualified ecologist.
LE 05	Long term impact on biodiversity	2	The production of a long term landscape and habitat management plan to encourage measures that improve the sites long term biodiversity.

LE 01 Site selection

LE 02 Ecological value of site and protection of ecological features

LE 03 Minimising impact on existing site ecology

LE 04 Enhancing site ecology

LE 05 Long term impact on biodiversity