Biodiversity Units For Sale

Yes. We have biodiversity units available from registered habitat banks, meaning biodiversity units can be reserved or purchased immediately to support planning submissions and discharge BNG conditions.

In many cases, biodiversity units can be identified and allocated within days from our registered BNG sites, helping developers avoid planning delays.

Yes. We can supply anything from fractional biodiversity units to large-scale requirements, ensuring you only purchase what your development requires.

Yes. Our portfolio includes a variety of habitat types, helping developers meet the BNG trading rules that prioritise matching habitat types and locations.

Yes. Our team supports developers in securing compliant biodiversity units, ensuring a development’s BNG trading rules are satisfied and successfully registering biodiversity unit allocations with Natural England.

Developers choose Bidwells because we offer:

• BNG planning condition satisfaction – 100% success rate in registering BNG sites and biodiversity unit allocations
• Credibility - Landowner-led habitat banks delivering high quality environmental and social outcomes in perpetuity
• Flexible unit volumes – from fractions to tens and hundreds of biodiversity units
• Variety of habitat types – including medium, high and very-high distinctiveness areas, hedgerow and watercourse habitats
• Nationwide coverage – minimising the spatial risk multiplier
• Value for money – landscape scale BNG that is well-resourced and cost-effective
• Simple and fast procurement – straightforward process to reserve or complete the purchase of biodiversity units within days

Our biodiversity units are delivered through landowner-led habitat banks, with long-term legally secured management plans in place to ensure habitats are maintained for at least 30 years by the landowners.

You can request a quote using this form to share details including:

• Development location

• Habitat type requirements
• Number of biodiversity units needed

We can quickly confirm the availability and price of suitable units.

Check that your planning officer approves your off-site BNG solution before you purchase the biodiversity units. We can provide a letter stating the habitat bank details and capacity to meet your development’s BNG trading rules that you can share with your planning officer in advance of reserving or purchasing biodiversity units.

Your BNG requirement might change as you progress from concept to detailed design during the planning process. We can allow for flexibility in the quantity of biodiversity units you reserve to ensure that you will ultimately only buy the biodiversity units that you need.

Yes. Please see a couple of examples below:

“As the first organisation to invest in the Lower Valley Farm scheme we are proud to lead the way in Cambridgeshire through our partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and Bidwells to help achieve our environmental objectives.”
Emma Sharpe, Network Rail Anglia

“We successfully secured 24.24 habitat units from Bentley Heath BNG scheme where Bidwells facilitated the negotiations to develop a bespoke agreement, meeting our planning condition for the development of a logistics warehouse.”
James Craig, Griggs Homes

We offer dynamic pricing that accounts for the cost of delivering each habitat type and apply quantum discounts for large transactions, as well as ensuring that we continue to price competitively in the market.

We facilitate your purchase of the biodiversity units directly from the landowner. We don’t list our habitat banks on any of the BNG trading platforms, ensuring that there are no additional fees.