Property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has teamed up with habitat-cultivator Naturum to help developers get biodiversity net gain (BNG) units offsite on land Naturum owns and manages.
LHS said that with mandatory BNG now embedded in England’s planning system, developers need help when sufficient gains can’t be achieved on the development site itself.
Naturum owns what it says is a growing number of multi-acre sites in England where it is restoring biodiversity.
They include the 2,000-acre Buriton Meadows in East Hampshire, previously used for intensive grazing and turf cultivation, and the 90-acre Holm Mead site in South Gloucestershire, previously hayfields, which the company plans to restore as a lowland water meadow.
Naturum works with existing local nature recovery plans, monitors ecological outcomes and engages schools and communities.
“We are the single, accountable counterparty for the full 30-year term with end-to-end responsibility for habitat delivery, management, monitoring and reporting,” said Naturum chair and co-founder Peter Klimt.
“Our sites are strategically located against development demand and, as the scale, resources and diversity of our portfolio continue to grow, it is partnerships like this one with LSH that let us bring that long-term certainty to more developers and make a real difference to the communities we operate in.”
