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Newhey Habitat Bank

County
Greater Manchester
Local planning authority (LPA)
Rochdale Borough Council
National Character Area (NCA)
Southern Pennines
Biodiversity gain sites register number
BGS-130325001
Birds-eye render of Newhey Habitat Bank with habitats restored, including new fens, meadows, ponds, trees, scrub, and grassland
Birds-eye render of Newhey Habitat Bank before restoration

Biodiversity Units

Very high distinctiveness habitats

  • Fens (upland and lowland)
  • Lowland meadows

High distinctiveness habitats

  • Ponds (priority habitat)

Medium distinctiveness habitats

  • Mixed scrub
  • Other neutral grassland
  • Rural tree
  • Upland acid grassland
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Habitat Bank overview

Since the spring of 2024, we’ve been creating a Habitat Bank across more than sixty acres of grade 4 and 5 farmland just under four miles from Rochdale.

Strategically placed to connect habitats across the area, Newhey Habitat Bank is just beside the Crompton Moor Site of Biological Importance (SBI), a designated site that will benefit from connectivity to our Habitat Bank.

BNG delivery

An essential part of our Habitat Bank delivery process is the initial assessment of the land. This ensures that our team are maximising potential biodiversity uplift from the outset. We look at each site’s natural features and histories – taking into account soil type and condition, long-term management history, native wildlife, hydrology, existing vegetation, geology, and connectivity across wider landscapes.  

For each of our Habitat Banks, we take a baseline using the statutory biodiversity metric – ensuring that we can accurately measure the benefits brought by our nature restoration works over our thirty-year management period.  

Coverage

Biodiversity Units from Newhey Habitat Bank offer an effective local off-site BNG solution for the Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council LPA area and the Southern Pennines NCA. They also provide adjacent coverage to the LPAs and NCAs listed below.
Neighbouring LPAs
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Manchester City Council
Rossendale Borough Council
Neighbouring NCAs
Dark Peak
Lancashire Coal Measures
Nottingham, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield
Lancashire Valleys
Pennine Dales Fringe
Yorkshire Southern Pennine Fringe
Manchester Pennine Fringe
Yorkshire Dales

Our vision

At our Newhey Habitat Bank, which sits within Rochdale’s Local Plan green belt zone, we’re creating a diverse range of new habitats and enhancing the existing spaces – including the notable upland fen habitat.

The Habitat Bank is less than two miles from the South Pennine Moors Special Protection Area (SPA) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC), and this site was chosen for its ecological potential to connect local habitats such as the blanket bog priority habitat Fragmentation Action Zone to the east.

We anticipate that our new habitats will help several species of wildlife grow in numbers – this includes badgers, otters, great crested newts, barn owls, hobby falcons, peregrines, and curlews.

We’re really pleased that members of the local community will also be able to share in the growing biodiversity, accessing areas of the Habitat Bank via several public footpaths.

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