The full BNG obligation, handled properly.

Baseline habitat surveys and DEFRA metric calculations, carried out to hold up under planning scrutiny; not just to clear it on submission.

• Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and UKHab baseline surveying
• DEFRA Biodiversity Metric calculation and net gain strategy
• On-site, off-site, and credit-purchase route comparison
• Planning condition and s106 support through determination

Feasibility and design work for landowners bringing sites into the off-site unit market, plus the management planning that keeps a bank deliverable for its full term.

• Site feasibility and habitat baseline assessment
• Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans
• Registration support for Natural England's biodiversity gain sites register
• Long-term monitoring set-up across the 30-year obligation

Subcontracted capacity for established habitat bank operators and consultancies; unit allocation, fee scoping, and metric QA on a project or retainer basis.

• Unit allocation across live habitat bank portfolios
• Fee scoping and quote preparation for incoming enquiries
• Independent metric QA on third-party assessments
• Overflow capacity during peak submission periods

QGIS and ArcGIS deliverables built for planning submissions; from constraint mapping through to metric-ready spatial data and automated designated site searches.

• Constraint and designated site searches
• Habitat parcel mapping to metric specification
• Custom QGIS scripting and workflow automation
• Figure production for reports and planning documents

Practical, working-level training in the DEFRA metric and BNG process; for ecologists and planners who need to apply it correctly, not pass a quiz.

• DEFRA Biodiversity Metric fundamentals
• Metric QA and common error patterns
• In-house workshops, scoped to your team's current caseload

Independent review of DEFRA Biodiversity Metric calculations; checked against the calculation logic, not just eyeballed for plausibility. A second senior pair of eyes before anything reaches a planning authority.

• Independent check of metric calculations and habitat data entry
• Verification against the metric's underlying rules and condition assessments
• Review of baseline and post-intervention assumptions
• Clear, documented findings you can act on or evidence

Independent technical review of BNG and HEP assessments submitted to local planning authorities; giving planning officers a specialist second opinion on whether an applicant's metric and habitat evidence stands up.

• Review of submitted BNG assessments and metric calculations for accuracy and compliance
• HEP (Habitat Evaluation Procedure) assessment review, including bat SAC and HRA-related work
• Independent scrutiny of habitat condition assessments and baseline claims
• Clear, evidenced findings to support determination and conditions

Custom tooling for the parts of BNG delivery that are technical enough to automate properly; metric QA, desk study assembly, and report generation.

• Metric QA and error-checking tooling
• Automated desk study and constraint report assembly
• Report and figure generation workflows
• Bespoke tooling scoped to your existing process