Billingshield Farms Habitat Bank, DL13 1NX

Landscape scale biodiversity net gain initiative in Durham generating over 300 biodiversity units for sale.

• Overview

   

  Located in County Durham and within the Swinhope Burn river catchment, this scheme will restore riparian habitats and enhance moorland, meadow, heath and woodland habitats into a high quality biodiverse landscape.

  The legal agreement for this habitat bank is in place. The biodiversity gain sites register reference is BGS-220425003.
  
  

  Catchments:

  • Swinhope Burn from Source to Wear waterbody catchment
  • Wear Upper operational catchment

   

• Developers can secure biodiversity units for the following habitat types:

  • Wetlands of very high distinctiveness
  • Grassland of medium and very high distinctiveness
  • Heathland and shrub of high distinctiveness
  • Wet woodland of high distinctiveness
  • Line of trees of medium distinctiveness
  • Other rivers and streams of high distinctiveness