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Registered biodiversity units, ready to allocate
We supply off-site units from our own registered sites, allocate them to your development and provide the documents your authority needs to discharge the condition.
We can give you an indicative price the same day from a postcode and a metric.
- Position
- Second-largest private supplier in England
- Financial strength
- £56.5m capital for land and habitat
- Supplied
- 430+ developments in 170+ planning authorities
- Protection
- In perpetuity, not thirty years
We have supplied units to more than 430 developments for housebuilders, retailers, councils, commercial developers and infrastructure owners.
Do you need off-site units?
Most developments in England must deliver a 10% biodiversity gain. Where that cannot be done on site you can buy off-site units from a registered habitat bank.
You cannot hit ten per cent on site
Your metric output falls short and there is no more space on site.
On-site delivery is not viable
Habitat costs you developable area, and the management liability stays with you.
You need certainty, quickly
Your condition is holding up commencement and you need units allocated.
You want the liability gone
Off-site units take the management obligation off your balance sheet.
For nature, forever
Thirty years is the legal minimum.
Ours is forever.
The law asks for thirty years. A habitat bank on a thirty-year agreement can go back to the plough in year thirty-one. Every one of our sites is protected in perpetuity, on land we own.
For your authority
A covenant registered against the title, so what happens after year thirty is never a question at discharge.
For your scheme
No cliff edge, no successor liability and no argument about who looks after the habitat when an agreement ends.
For nature
The habitat your units paid for is still there in a hundred years, which is the point of the policy.
How buying units works
Most allocations complete in days.
Send us your metric
Send your metric and the site postcode. That is all we need to price it.
You provide
We send you a quote
We confirm the habitat types and that our sites cover your planning authority and National Character Area, then send you a quote. You can buy the units straight away or reserve them.
Buy now or reserve
Units are allocated
When you buy, we sign the agreement and allocate the units to your scheme, from stock or created to order on land we own.
Allocated to your scheme, in writing
You discharge the condition
You receive everything your authority needs, in one pack, and we deal with any questions it raises.
- Unit allocation certificate
- Balanced BNG metric (Excel file)
- A copy of our signed legal conservation covenant
- Natural England registration confirmation
- Direct authority support, at no extra cost
Authority liaison included
Buying for one scheme or many
Fractions of a unit
Small schemes often need less than a whole unit, so you can buy a fraction and pay only for what your metric requires.
Supply agreements for repeat buyers
If you have a pipeline of sites, a supply agreement gives you priority access to units, with terms agreed once and units reserved against the schemes you know are coming.
For planning authorities
To confirm the units we have supplied to a development in a biodiversity gain plan, email us. info@wild-capital.co.uk
Habitat types we supply
From low to very high distinctiveness. Availability varies by site and changes as units are allocated.
What developers ask us
How do I know your units will satisfy my planning condition?
Every unit is registered with Natural England before it is sold, and you receive the documents your authority needs to discharge the condition.
How does the spatial risk multiplier affect what I pay?
Units in your own National Character Area carry no multiplier. Units further afield do, so you need more of them. Our quotes always include it.
Why do you say in perpetuity when the statutory minimum is thirty years?
Thirty years is the legal minimum. Our covenants protect every site permanently, with management funded by an endowment.
How quickly can units be allocated?
Most allocations complete within days of receiving your metric, and postcode checks are same day.
Who to talk to
For a price, availability or an allocation, these are the people who will handle it.
Stuart Newton-Tyers
Commercial Director
Prices schemes, agrees terms and runs our relationships with developers and consultants.
Tasmin Samad
Commercial Operations Coordinator
Turns enquiries into quotes and takes allocations through to the documents your authority needs.
Projects supplying this
Twenty habitat banks across four regions. Three of the busiest:
Case studies
Work we have delivered for clients with this obligation.
Open Mosaic Habitat on Previously Developed Land registered against a ten-week deadline
Biodiversity, rare habitat
Units from two of our habitat banks for Longcross Studios
Biodiversity
Units in six authorities and nitrogen credits on Teesside, all allocated
Biodiversity, nutrientWho stands behind the obligation
- The land
- We own the land freehold, with no lease and no third-party landowner.
- The covenant
- A conservation covenant or planning obligation protecting each site in perpetuity, registered against the title.
- Responsible Body
- An independent Responsible Body or the local authority can step in if we ever fail to deliver.
- The endowment
- Long-term management is funded by an endowment set aside at allocation.
- Financial strength
- We have £56.5m of capital for land and habitat, and are rated Very Low Risk with an international credit score of A. That capital lets us buy land and create habitat before your programme needs it, and fund its management for the long term.
Quotes for biodiversity units
Send us your metric and the site postcode, and within a day we’ll tell you what we hold, where it is and what it costs.