Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) – We’ll Keep Your BNG Plan on Track
Avoid bottlenecks and delays in local developments with a free consultation from the UK’s leading Biodiversity Net Gain experts.
Our Services
Access BNG habitats
We can help your developers locate offsite BNG units.
Assess your land for suitability
Our baseline BNG assessments will help you determine if your land is suitable for BNG schemes.
Progress developments
High-level consultation from our BNG experts can help you avoid delays, deliver vital projects and meet targets.
The pressure on LPAs to deliver Biodiversity Net Gain
Biodiversity Net Gain legislation is a groundbreaking step in our nation’s efforts to protect the environment. However, as the custodians of this legislation, local planning authorities (LPAs) are under pressure to both deliver BNG and keep important developments moving.
Your ever-increasing workload may now include:
Helping local developers find suitable sites that meet BNG rules
Assessing your own land for BNG suitability
Undertaking detailed ecological assessments to facilitate the above
You’ll need to do all of this at a time when budgets, resources and expertise are stretched. And with the current housing crisis, long delays to projects are not an option.
Creating a cogent BNG plan is no small task.
We can help you develop your BNG plan and keep developments moving –
For free
Biofarm is a team of leading UK environmental and planning experts. We have a large resource of units and credits ready to meet Biodiversity Net Gain requirements. Developers purchase the BNG units from us and we take on the ongoing management and liability for delivering the habitats, to ensure the right habitats are delivered in the right locations.
As part of this service, we offer free consultancy to local planning authorities. We can help you develop a BNG plan. Work with us to:
Keep projects on track by finding suitable land for developers in your locality. This can include providing BNG baseline assessments and liaising with you on a developers’ behalf to ensure they meet your requirements.
Assess your own land for BNG suitability. We can help you do this by providing BNG baseline assessments to determine if you can use land owned by the authority for offsite BNG.
Get high-level environmental expertise. Our team includes a professional ecologist with a wide knowledge of environmental regulation and impact assessment and an experienced environmentalist who is former CEO of Somerset Wildlife Trust.
Getting the right habitats in the right locations and providing beautiful new rewilded natural environments will satisfy your constituents, your developers and your department.
Why are you offering us these services for free?
Because it’s a win-win for everyone involved. When it comes to BNG requirements, LPAs, developers and landowners are part of an interconnected process. Biofarm uses its BNG units and consultancy expertise to bring these parties together and deliver biodiversity net gain.
You develop a solid BNG plan and meet your BNG responsibilities with help from a conscientious and credible provider.
Developers progress schemes.
Landowners get excellent returns on marginal land.
Get free consultancy now
Do you have a backlog of projects to assess against Biodiversity Net Gain requirements? Do you need help assessing your own land or finding help for a developer? Get in touch and we can help you plan for BNG now.