BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN
BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN
Key reasons to trust Meadfleet for the management of Biodiversity Net Gain:
As a long-standing, land-owning business, we are well positioned to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain requirements are upheld for the 30-year term.
Adaptive management style designed to development specific requirements and best practice guidelines.
In-house ecologists providing expert advice, guidance and the capability to deliver the monitoring and reporting requirements of Biodiversity Net Gain plans
Experienced in long term maintenance and management of specialist habitats
Initiatives already in place to enhance biodiversity on open spaces
A focus on enhancing and creating additional ecological benefits long into the future
Operations teams receive regular training on Biodiversity Net Gain and more broader ecological improvements
What is Biodiversity Net Gain?
Biodiversity Net Gain is an initiative included in the Environment Act 2021 and likely to become law by late 2023.
The key goal is to ensure that any new development leaves the environment in a demonstrably better condition than before. A collaborative approach should be taken between developers, local government, wildlife groups, landowners, and other stakeholders for the benefit of biodiversity.
How does Biodiversity Net Gain work?
• All land subject to development, with a few exceptions, will be subject to Biodiversity Net Gain.
• The system uses a metric to score a development, based on the habitats present.
• Biodiversity Net Gain plans must ensure a minimum 10% increase in the overall development score.
• Biodiversity Net Gain plans are subject to a 30-year period of ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Priority habitats such as wetlands, mature woodlands and uncommon grasslands are given a high value in the metric as the loss of these features requires considerable compensation.
• Habitats are also assessed on their ‘distinctiveness’ and condition.
• Biodiversity Net Gain can be achieved through creating new habitats or enhancing existing.
• Proposals must follow a “mitigation hierarchy”, firstly seeking to avoid negative impacts in the first instance and then mitigating and compensating for any losses due to development.
• Efforts must be made to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain can be achieved on the development, however if this is not feasible, then it can be achieved elsewhere.
Why is Biodiversity Net Gain important?
Biodiversity net gain is important as it not only mitigates the effects of development but improves areas for biodiversity. The following are just some of the benefits:
• Cleaner and greener areas to live and work
• More habitats for wildlife to thrive
• Improved natural flood protection
• A positive impact on the effects of climate change
Adaptive Management in Perpetuity
Expert Biodiversity Net Gain Management:
A long-term commitment to biodiversity
Established over 26 years ago, Meadfleet are specialists in open space management. With over 350 developments across England and Wales we are experts in managing a wide variety of open space features including diverse habitats. Our sustainable approach to land management means we have been applying the principles of Biodiversity Net Gain for some time now. Via initiatives such as our Bee Friendly Campaign we have enhanced and created 1000s of square metres of habitats.
As a long-standing, land-owning business, Meadfleet are well positioned to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain requirements are upheld for the 30-year term with an aim to also enhance and create additional ecological benefits long into the future.
The Meadfleet team have always felt passionately about ensuring open spaces are managed for the benefit of residents and wildlife, and this has been instilled in our company culture. With a qualified ecologist on our board of directors, we recognise and promote the need for new build developments to provide suitable habitat and resources for native species whilst also offering customers pleasant surroundings to enjoy.
Our aim has always been to improve biodiversity on open spaces in our care; working to enhance and create additional habitats whilst engaging residents in the journey. An example of this is our Bee Friendly Campaign, designed to add areas of pollinator friendly habitat to the new build developments in our management. This includes the donation of 30,000 sqm of wildflower, 1km of hedgerow, 70,000 pollinator friendly bulbs and giving away 2000 bee hotels to customers for their gardens. The campaign has been recognised by CIRIA, winning first place in their Big Biodiversity Challenge Pollinator award in 2021.
As a carbon neutral open space management company, Meadfleet offer a service designed to promote sustainability and support the environment. For housebuilders faced with juggling the demands of climate action and biodiversity, Meadfleet offer a sustainable solution for open space management in perpetuity.
To find out more about how Meadfleet can help you manage the ongoing requirements of Biodiversity Net Gain on the open spaces on your development, please get in touch.
In-house biodiversity expertise and support
With dedicated in-house ecology professionals led by our Operations Director who is a qualified ecologist, we have the skill set required to successfully monitor and manage a development for the duration of the 30-year covenant required by housebuilders to achieve biodiversity net gain on their developments. Our teams receive Biodiversity Net Gain training to ensure they are up to date with the latest guidance.
We are able to offer bespoke guidance to housebuilders from the inception of a development, advising on the layout and potential ecological benefits that could be added.
Biodiversity Enhancement
Meadfleet’s Bee Friendly campaign is an example of the work we do to both create and enhance habitats. Funded by Meadfleet and with support from leading insect charity Buglife, the campaign was launched to provide additional bee friendly areas on the open spaces in our management. These include an additional 30,000
square metres of wildflower, 1km of new native hedgerow and the planting of over 70,000 pollen rich bulbs. We also engage our customers in the initiative, with regular giveaways of bee friendly items such as seeds and bug hotels plus free activities and advice and twice-yearly newsletters to keep them up to date. Find out more here.
Key reasons to trust Meadfleet for the management of Biodiversity Net Gain:
As a long-standing, land-owning business, we are well positioned to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain requirements are upheld for the 30-year term.
Adaptive management style designed to development specific requirements and best practice guidelines.
In-house ecologists providing expert advice, guidance and the capability to deliver the monitoring and reporting requirements of Biodiversity Net Gain plans
Experienced in long term maintenance and management of specialist habitats
Initiatives already in place to enhance biodiversity on open spaces
A focus on enhancing and creating additional ecological benefits long into the future
Operations teams receive regular training on Biodiversity Net Gain and more broader ecological improvements
What is Biodiversity Net Gain?
Biodiversity Net Gain is an initiative included in the Environment Act 2021 and likely to become law by late 2023.
The key goal is to ensure that any new development leaves the environment in a demonstrably better condition than before. A collaborative approach should be taken between developers, local government, wildlife groups, landowners, and other stakeholders for the benefit of biodiversity.
How does Biodiversity Net Gain work?
• All land subject to development, with a few exceptions, will be subject to Biodiversity Net Gain.
• The system uses a metric to score a development, based on the habitats present.
• Biodiversity Net Gain plans must ensure a minimum 10% increase in the overall development score.
• Biodiversity Net Gain plans are subject to a 30-year period of ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Priority habitats such as wetlands, mature woodlands and uncommon grasslands are given a high value in the metric as the loss of these features requires considerable compensation.
• Habitats are also assessed on their ‘distinctiveness’ and condition.
• Biodiversity Net Gain can be achieved through creating new habitats or enhancing existing.
• Proposals must follow a “mitigation hierarchy”, firstly seeking to avoid negative impacts in the first instance and then mitigating and compensating for any losses due to development.
• Efforts must be made to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain can be achieved on the development, however if this is not feasible, then it can be achieved elsewhere.
Why is Biodiversity Net Gain important?
Biodiversity net gain is important as it not only mitigates the effects of development but improves areas for biodiversity. The following are just some of the benefits:
• Cleaner and greener areas to live and work
• More habitats for wildlife to thrive
• Improved natural flood protection
• A positive impact on the effects of climate change
Adaptive Management in Perpetuity
Expert Biodiversity Net Gain Management:
A long-term commitment to biodiversity
Established over 26 years ago, Meadfleet are specialists in open space management. With over 350 developments across England and Wales we are experts in managing a wide variety of open space features including diverse habitats. Our sustainable approach to land management means we have been applying the principles of Biodiversity Net Gain for some time now. Via initiatives such as our Bee Friendly Campaign we have enhanced and created 1000s of square metres of habitats.
As a long-standing, land-owning business, Meadfleet are well positioned to ensure Biodiversity Net Gain requirements are upheld for the 30-year term with an aim to also enhance and create additional ecological benefits long into the future.
The Meadfleet team, including its board of directors, have always felt passionately about ensuring open spaces are managed for the benefit of residents and wildlife, and this has been instilled in our company culture. We recognise the need for new build developments to provide suitable habitat and resources for native species whilst also offering customers pleasant surroundings to enjoy.
Our aim has always been to improve biodiversity on open spaces in our care; working to enhance and create additional habitats whilst engaging residents in the journey. An example of this is our Bee Friendly Campaign, designed to add areas of pollinator friendly habitat to the new build developments in our management. This includes the donation of 30,000 sqm of wildflower, 1km of hedgerow, 70,000 pollinator friendly bulbs and giving away 2000 bee hotels to customers for their gardens. The campaign has been recognised by CIRIA, winning first place in their Big Biodiversity Challenge Pollinator award in 2021.
As a carbon neutral open space management company, Meadfleet offer a service designed to promote sustainability and support the environment. For housebuilders faced with juggling the demands of climate action and biodiversity, Meadfleet offer a sustainable solution for open space management in perpetuity.
In-house biodiversity expertise and support
With dedicated in-house ecology professionals, we have the skill set required to successfully monitor and manage a development for the duration of the 30-year covenant required by housebuilders to achieve biodiversity net gain on their developments. Our teams receive Biodiversity Net Gain training to ensure they are up to date with the latest guidance.
We are able to offer bespoke guidance to housebuilders from the inception of a development, advising on the layout and potential ecological benefits that could be added.
Biodiversity Enhancement
Meadfleet’s Bee Friendly campaign is an example of the work we do to both create and enhance habitats. Funded by Meadfleet and with support from leading insect charity Buglife, the campaign was launched to provide additional bee friendly areas on the open spaces in our management. These include an additional 30,000 square metres of wildflower, 1km of new native hedgerow and the planting of over 70,000 pollen rich bulbs. We also engage our customers in the initiative, with regular giveaways of bee friendly items such as seeds and bug hotels plus free activities and advice and twice-yearly newsletters to keep them up to date.
To find out more about how Meadfleet can help you manage the ongoing requirements of Biodiversity Net Gain on the open spaces on your development, please get in touch.
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