Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Consultancy for Developers
Expert guidance to help you meet BNG requirements and secure planning permission with confidence
BNG Consultancy Services
Commercial Ecology Baselining
Onsite baselining, commercial ecology work, site mapping. Combining traditional commercial ecology services, experience in natural capital, development and planning with a deep understanding of statutory BNG to provide an end-to-end BNG service. We can undertake baseline habitat analysis, overlaying potential scheme designs to provide an early view on potential BNG requirements.
Early stage BNG Viability & Strategy
We can provide support through site acquisition, early viability and planning submission stages to ensure you’re aware of your evolving net gain requirements and liabilities as your site progresses. We are on hand to help inform scheme design and advise on the most efficient route to BNG compliance – ensuring that BNG doesn’t hold up planning submission.
Biodiversity Gain Plans
Working with developers to prepare their Biodiversity Gain Plans for planning submission, ensuring appropriate onsite mitigation and off-site unit provision where needed. We have extensive experience working with LPAs on BNG and understand how best to communicate an effective and compliant BNG strategy.
Asset Management
Long-term habitat creation, management and monitoring – we can help implement habitat creation and maintenance on site and handle monitoring an reporting to LPA / Responsible Bodies.
Offsite BNG Unit Supply
Gaia is the number one marketplace for BNG units in the UK. The only place to independently compare an extensive range of units throughout the country delivered by a range of BNG providers.
The BNG marketplace is completely free for developers to use and you don’t even need to create an account to search for units. If you can’t find the the units required on the marketplace, then submit a unit request and we will find the units for you – again completely free of charge.
