Stacked Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
Cost-effective delivery on BNG and protected species
Our industry-first approach to Biodiversity Net Gain delivers lasting outcomes for nature while reducing both cost and complexity for developers.
By integrating BNG with strategic compensation for protected species, our unique stacked delivery model enables a single habitat creation project to contribute towards both environmental requirements. This reduces duplication, avoids unnecessary costs and delivers more for nature.
Our process is straightforward and designed to save you time. We’ll work closely with your team to understand your project and develop a compensation package that best meets your needs.
High-quality habitat for nature recovery
Our mission is to deliver gain sites of the highest quality: diverse, resilient and defined by the high-distinctiveness habitats that are essential for long-term nature recovery.
Our stacked delivery model creates opportunities to deliver these ambitious habitats without increasing costs for developers.
Through our partnership with the Newt Conservation Partnership (NCP), we create ecologically-led compensation sites that deliver benefits for biodiversity at a landscape scale. Guided by a ‘right habitat, right place’ approach, our work is informed by years of successful great crested newt habitat creation to support wider nature recovery.
With extensive experience delivering strategic licensing schemes for protected species and developing new approaches to nature recovery, we are helping to raise the standard for off-site BNG delivery for developers, communities and nature alike.
How does Stacked BNG work?
Our District Licensing and Organisational Licensing schemes are a strategic alternative to the traditional licensing system for great crested newts that streamline the planning process, remove the need for surveys and ultimately, speed up development.
Our Stacked BNG scheme then uses the habitat created for great crested newt compensation to contribute toward meeting your BNG requirements. This ensures you are not paying for the same impact twice!
Our scheme complies with additionality rules by ensuring that habitats created specifically for great crested newts contribute only up to ‘no net loss’; however, the scheme also delivers all the BNG habitat needed to meet and exceed the 10% net gain requirement, so there’s no need to source additional units from multiple providers.
