BNG Units in North Yorkshire.
Enhancing Habitat to restore the quality of our Environment
Providers of Biodiversity units to offset developers BNG planning obligations based in North Yorkshire
Why are we enhancing habitat and what is our approach to creating BNG units in North Yorkshire?
We are currently implementing 40+ BNG units in North Yorkshire with the aim to reduce the Impact on our environment that has resulted from years of rapid development into our greenbelt areas. Habitat Exchange therefore plays a positive role in helping address our climate crisis via environmental enhancement projects and consultancy work.
Why Now?
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) environmental legislation now obligates developers to increase the BNG or biodiversity on sites they choose to develop. Developers, therefore, need to make BNG a priority during their planning process so as to reduce their offsetting obligations.
What is Habitat Exchange’s Role?
Habitat Exchange as a BNG Habitat Bank meets the needs of developers operating in the North Yorkshire planning Area by providing BNG units. We supply Biodiversity Units so developers can mitigate their offsite BNG obligations.
Offsetting your BNG obligations ensures you don’t need to maintain the biodiversity for the mandated 30 year period. This therefore allows you to focus on your core business.
As a result of the 2024 legislation, our primary focus is to deliver habitat enhancement in the North Yorkshire area.
Where are our projects in North Yorkshire and why Habitat Exchange?
Habitat Exchange operates in Ingleton, North Yorkshire on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. We are an independent, local, family run, ethical business. Our unique approach takes responsibility for the whole e2e BNG process. We therefore are responsible for the site ownership, design and implementation, registration and all management and maintenance obligations.
Many other providers of Biodiversity Units are not land owners themselves which can therefore add layers of legal agreements and inefficiency to the process.
Habitat Exchange offers an efficient, ‘one stop shop’ solution for delivery of Biodiversity BNG units in North Yorkshire
As well as habitat enhancement project work we have over 20 year experience in dealing with planning applications.
Why is location of BNG so important?
Spatial risk is a factor in Biodiversity Net Gain legislation and location is significant. Therefore developers should offset in the same local planning authority where they can. When offsetting is necessary, we recommend to enhance habitat local to development sites. As you move further out of your planning area the more units you will require to meet your obligations.
Our back story and progression with creation of BNG units in North Yorkshire
Our family has always had an interest in nature and biodiversity. Therefore it was a natural step for our Habitat enhancement project work to start with the implementation of a native woodland creation project planted in 2019. This modest scheme operates without any commercial aspiration and as a result meets our family desire to make a positive contribution to our natural environment as a family. The woodland is well established and continues to mature as evident in some photographs used in our media. This non for profit project naturally led to us look for commercial projects and as a result Habitat Exchange was born.
Habitat Exchange currently operates as a commercial enterprise to support the January 2024 BNG legislation. We have a growing desire to instigate more enhancement projects in direct response to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and therefore are looking out for further sites to develop.
Habitat Exchange’s newest site identified for habitat enhancement is in Ingleton area, We were keen to get started and therefore have already commenced the new habitat creation work with planting of trees and yellow rattle.
All enquiries are now welcome, although the Biodiversity Units will only be available as soon as the scheme is registered with Natural England which we expect shortly.
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) & Offsetting in North Yorkshire
Choosing to delivery biodiversity units offsite can be beneficial for both developers and biodiversity enhancement.
Offsite locations can often be lower traffic environments with more efficient maintenance which can often be manged more robustly, all enabling biodiversity to thrive more readily.
Onsite biodiversity mitigation can present site constraints, reduce density of proposed development and leave a long term maintenance plan responsibility for the developer.
How can our team help you with your BNG requirements?
Biodiversity Units generated by Habitat Exchange are marketed to developers and the sale of units is negotiated directly between developer and supplier which in this case is ourselves.
The leadership team includes experience of planning processes and we can offer consultancy to developers from the earliest stages of a development project.
Our experience in habitat enhancement projects enables us to offer consultancy to other land owners to help their understanding and implementation of similar projects.
Outside of the North Yorkshire Planning Authority?
We can help with the management of the BNG process for your habitat bank. We are doing this for clients already outside of the North Yorkshire planning area.
HabExchange.co.uk our broker and marketplace company can also market and broker your units UK wide for very competitive rates.
Our Leadership Team
Lou Taylor
Director
Marc Taylor
Director
Paul Taylor
Director
Have a look at our Ingleton site below
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Have Any Questions?
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