New Government policy requires developers to meet stringent new targets to protect biodiversity.
If they cannot achieve this on their own development sites, this gives the opportunity for other landowners to create new biodiversity on their land and sell the developers the valuable BNG units that have been created. Golf clubs are the perfect host to develop such projects and we can help your golf club unlock that value.
Below we briefly outline what steps need to betaken to release your clubs capital potential from Biodiversity Net Gain.
This requires qualified ecologists to examine the land and indicate what its value is before any enhancement - this is called the baseline.
The Golf club considers the plans and makes any amendments that are required.
The way that the provisions have been set up, there has to be an agreement with either the Local Planning Authority under s106 of the Planning Act or a conservation covenant with a registered body.
The body Natural England keeps the list of BNG ‘gain sites’ which are those sites where the work above has been completed and is then examined and verified.
Once the supplier side of the equation has been completed, as above, a purchaser for the BNG units has to be found.
One of the counter-intuitive aspects of the BNG process is that all of the work in steps 1-5 above is completed before any work to the golf course is actually commenced.
The BNG units that have been created are then maintained for the minimum 30 year period, usually by the greenkeeping staff.
For a more in depth analysis visit our steps to be taken page.
