Biodiversity Net Gain
When the property sector was still grappling with mitigating environmental harm in development a decade ago, Bidwells was busy pioneering a start-to-finish net gain solution for a developer with a biodiversity deficit.
Pioneering an ahead-of-its-time biodiversity net gain solution for the development industry
Thaxted was the first biodiversity offsetting scheme of its kind in the UK. Nine years on, we’ve advised on net gain for projects delivering a total of 25,000 homes and 15m sq ft of commercial space, with a GDV of £15m.
Wildlife habitat creation was once seen as peripheral to the development process – just another complex problem to put on the long list of complex problems to be solved during planning.
It’s still complex, but having a credible biodiversity plan for your scheme is becoming integral to securing permission and maximising end values.
Impending legislation will soon make it a legal requirement to deliver a 10% net gain during development. Some forward-thinking local authorities across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc are already demanding 15%.
To pull together cost-effective and credible solutions you need a close familiarity with ecology objectives, encyclopaedic land market knowledge and the contractual expertise to secure the right type of land interest
Service options
Development Consultancy
Our clients come to us for advice because we’ve been developing and managing science parks and city centre innovation districts in Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes for more than half a century.
Development Funding and Joint Ventures
Our unique understanding of the nuts and bolts of developing property assets for the science and technology sector means we can find and select the right partner to help turn your vision into a reality.
Financial Modelling
Maximising your development returns in the science and technology space takes highly specialist knowledge. Building laboratories and growing science clusters is about more than developing commercial property.
Land Assembly
Whether you’re looking to create an out-of-town science park or a city centre research hub, acquiring land or joining forces with neighbours provides an opportunity to think big.
Pre-letting and Leasing Strategy
By leveraging our expert market insight into what science and tech occupiers need from their space and business location, you can align your proposals to fund and develop with confidence.
Project Management
Our project managers are a dominant force in the science and tech sector, in recent years delivering over £2.4million sq ft of S&T space across the Ox-Cam Arc.
Site and Option Analysis
With five decades of experience delivering science and technology projects, we have comparable data to inform the viability and opportunity of development across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc.
Sourcing Off-market and Market Opportunities
Moving into this exciting asset class means fighting off the competition. Our comprehensive knowledge of our chosen markets helps you access and thrive in the science and technology marketplace.
Strategic Planning Advice
Securing planning permission locks value into your development, but it is the early strategic and creative planning advice that creates it.