Purple Horizons

We hope to work with local landowners to match them up with appropriate funding and use pockets of private land to create habitat corridors to reduce fragmentation and restore important habitats.

We are offering free baseline surveys of your land till the end of September. This will allow us to look at potential habitat creation and improvement, no commitment is required at this point. We will provide you with all potential funding opportunities, including Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Units that we can then further discuss with you the payment you could receive and further details of this scheme. For how units+ are created and payment information please see below.

This offers a unique opportunity for landowners, as if agreed, landowners can be set up as offset providers in which they can receive a payment based on the net gain they are able to offer on their site. Each unit can be sold for between £15,000-35,000 dependant on the location and factors below. Units are calculated based on:

• Distinctiveness (i.e. the type of habitat for example a modified grassland would be considered low and a lowland meadow high)
• Condition (i.e. the biodiversity value of that specific area in comparison to other areas of the same habitat, this is based on a series of factors)
• Strategic significance (i.e. how significant or beneficial is the location of the development or the habitats that are present or being created)
• Difficulty in creating or restoring the habitat (i.e. a preassigned score based on how difficult that specific habitat is to restore or create)
• Temporal risk (i.e. a preassigned score based on how long the habitat would take to establish and reach target condition)
• Spatial risk (i.e. the distance between the site where the habitat loss has occurred and where the creation or enhancement will occur)