Avon Fire and Rescue Service: when space is tight, progress should not be

Public services do not have spare land. Fire stations, hospitals and emergency hubs are built to serve people first. Every square metre has a purpose.

And these sites need to keep evolving. Expanding, reconfiguring, responding to demand.

BNG needs to work within that reality. Delivering it on site can mean setting land aside. Space that may be needed in the future.

It doesn’t have to work that way.

Worth Abbey arrives: a landmark habitat bank for the High Weald

A major new habitat bank is coming to market in Mid Sussex. Built for developers who need BNG that holds up in policy and in practice.

Set across 25 hectares (just over 60 acres) in the High Weald, Worth Abbey will deliver 131 units across lowland meadow, other neutral grassland, mixed scrub and individual trees.

Acorn Property Group: the right BNG solution, ready when it’s needed

Not every BNG story needs to be complex. Sometimes, it’s simply about having the right solution in the right place, at the right time.

Our recent work with independent developers, Acorn Property Group, is a perfect example.

Supporting the redevelopment of a former school site in Fairford into a collection of 34 high-quality new and converted homes, they needed a clear, compliant BNG solution within the Upper Thames Clay Vales.

Notes from the field: the Tamworth Effect

You don’t need to overhaul your land to restore it. Sometimes nature can do the heavy lifting for you.

Tamworth pigs are a simple example of that.

They’re being used across England to reinstate natural processes, improve biodiversity, and create practical, long-term value through Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG).

BNG starts on the ground: setting up every habitat bank for success

At the start of every habitat bank scheme, we bring all stakeholders together on site. Not for a tick-box meeting. To make BNG work in practice.

At Rycote Farm (BGS-150725001) in South Oxfordshire, our ecologists walked the land with the landowner and local specialist partners who know the area and work with the landscape every day.

Together, we mapped constraints, challenged assumptions, and agreed what good delivery actually looks like on the ground.

Biodiversity Net Gain: a Landowner Perspective from Christy Wells, Natural Capital Specialist, Fisher German

As the BNG market continues to evolve, the focus for many landowners is shifting from whether to participate to how BNG fits within the long-term structure of their land management and rural businesses.

Historically, environmental schemes have compensated landowners based on “income foregone and cost incurred.” BNG, by contrast, introduces a market mechanism where biodiversity improvements can generate long-term commercial value in their own right.