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Supporting the local planning process

Our nature markets make it simple for local planning authorities to ensure developers fulfil their obligations to protect and enhance the natural environment. Our high integrity markets keep the planning process moving to deliver both new development and local nature recovery efficiently.

Verified, traceable credits  

With a whole ecosystem of expertise behind our markets, our credits and our process are all held to an auditable standard, supported by scientific oversight. We offer biodiversity units and nutrient credits that are verified and fully traceable through our platform and the official registries.  

  • Our phosphorus credits (P-credits) and nitrogen credits (N-credits) meet nutrient neutrality requirements and all the certainty tests – legal, financial, scientific and delivery.   
  • Our biodiversity units meet local planning authority requirements for biodiversity net gain, and we match them according to the biodiversity metric trading rules.  
  • We are also exploring the potential for natural flood management credits.

Enhancing the local economy  

Our local nature-based projects contribute to the local economy as well as to local nature recovery.   

Working with local authorities and local conservation experts, we identify priorities for nature recovery in line with your local nature recovery strategy and seek out landholders interested in carrying out projects to deliver these priorities.  

Even small areas of otherwise unproductive land can have a big impact, and our markets take care of matching buyers with biodiversity units and nutrient mitigation credits generated by nature-based projects.   

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Need help ensuring developers protect and enhance nature? Find a nature market in your area or get in touch with our team. 

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Our commitment to local planning authorities 

  • Local authorities don’t pay anything for ongoing market operations.  
  • Our credits are verified and fully traceable.  
  • We’ll seek your input on the types of nature-based projects you want and where you want them.  
  • We work with you to ensure projects will result in genuine, lasting, additional environmental improvements.  
  • We contract with landholders to deliver the projects – giving you certainty. 
  • Robust legal agreements with landholders ensure projects are maintained and reported on. 
  • If a project doesn’t go ahead, we’ll provide credits from our reserves – keeping the planning process moving.