Are you a landowner seeking sustainable income opportunities? Somerset and Dorset Council's Call for Sites presents an exciting chance to generate revenue by hosting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) schemes on your land.
BNG schemes allow landowners to earn payments from developers needing to offset biodiversity impacts from their projects. Here's how it works:
1. Identify Suitable Land: Assess your holdings and pinpoint areas suitable for creating or restoring habitats like grasslands, woodlands, hedgerows or watercourses.
2. Submit Your Site: Provide details like a biodiversity metric, management plans, and delivery strategies.
3. Secure Legal Agreements: Once prioritised, work with the Council to legally secure your land for implementing, managing and monitoring the proposed BNG measures long-term.
4. Generate Revenue: Upon delivery, you can sell the resulting biodiversity units to developers, establishing a sustainable income stream aligned with environmental stewardship.
By participating, you contribute to local nature recovery while benefiting from a diversified revenue source.
The Call for Sites simplifies meeting BNG requirements by providing a centralised platform to purchase off-site biodiversity units across Somerset, Dorset and beyond.
1. Determine Needs: Calculate your project's biodiversity impacts and offsetting requirements using the metric.
2. Purchase Units: Explore the prioritised sites database and purchase the necessary biodiversity units.
3. Secure Approvals: Offsetting through these schemes helps obtain planning consent while supporting environmental initiatives.
Don't miss this opportunity to combine business objectives with environmental sustainability.
Telephone: 01935 864 537
Email: brynley.andrews@gmail.com
East Street, West Coker, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9BG
