On-site Biodiversity Net Gain delivery has very limited value – off-site provision will become the norm once the BNG policy is mandated into law I set up the Environment Bank back in 2007 because I was especially concerned at the way biodiversity was being treated within the planning and development control industry. The main issue […]

No longer having to spend endless hours on endless trains going to endless meetings, I have found the freedom to spend more time in the natural environment – actually doing the things I enjoy – birding and wildlife photography. As for many other people, one of the very few positives of Covid has been the […]

BBC Wildlife magazine’s latest issue contained a 4 page spread discussing the subject of biodiversity net gain and featured a segment from our Chairman David Hill. David discussed Environment Bank’s ambition for habitat banks with the aim of setting up 100 over the coming years as net gain becomes established. Professor Hill mentioned that money […]

Plantlife, of which Environment Bank Chairman David Hill is a trustee, has been awarded the CIEEM Best Practice Knowledge Sharing Award 2020 for Managing grassland road verges: a best practice guide.  This is fantastic peer recognition of a publication that was brought about through a collaborative partnership effort with Highways England, Natural England, Welsh Government, Transport […]

As Biodiversity net-gain is rolled out gradually across the country and with the upcoming national mandate set to be introduced with the Environment Bill in 2020/2021, Environment Bank are getting an increase in enquiries for offsetting sites in new local authority areas every week. With a key principle of offsetting being that offset sites should […]