Habitat banks in East Cambridgeshire LPA
3 habitat banks across East Cambridgeshire LPA, run by 2 operators, cover 41.6 hectares of habitat with 2.8 km of hedgerow and 1.5 km of watercourse on the public register. Operators, habitat types and neighbouring local planning authorities are listed below.
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At a glance
- Habitat banks
- 3
- Habitat area
- 41.6 ha
- Hedgerow
- 2.8 km
- Watercourse
- 1.5 km
Operators with habitat banks in East Cambridgeshire LPA
The 2 operators running the most habitat banks in East Cambridgeshire LPA, by number of sites on the public register.
| Operator | Habitat banks in East Cambridgeshire LPA |
|---|---|
| Hope Hall Stud | 2 |
| Oxwillow | 1 |
Habitat types in East Cambridgeshire LPA
The broad habitat categories present across habitat banks in East Cambridgeshire LPA, by number of sites. Each can contribute to a deficit differently depending on distinctiveness and condition under the statutory metric.
- Grassland — 3 sites
- Lakes — 3 sites
- Heathland and shrub — 2 sites
- Individual trees — 2 sites
- Woodland and forest — 2 sites
- Urban — 1 site
Hedgerow is present at 3 sites; watercourse at 1 site. These are measured by length, not area, and are calculated separately under the statutory metric.
How spatial rules work in East Cambridgeshire LPA
The local planning authority decides whether a development gets planning permission and whether its biodiversity gain plan is adequate. East Cambridgeshire LPA is the planning authority for every development within its boundary.
Distance is priced by a separate rule, the metric's spatial risk multiplier, and it reads two geographies at once. Off-site units count in full where the bank sits inside East Cambridgeshire LPA or inside the development's national character area — either alone is enough. A neighbouring LPA or NCA pays three-quarters, and outside both pays half. Watercourse units are scored on waterbody and operational catchments instead.
The Local Nature Recovery Strategy is a different lever again. It sets strategic significance, worth a 15% uplift, and it is judged at the bank rather than at the development: the parcel has to be mapped in that strategy's local habitat map with a proposed measure, and the work done there has to match it. Sharing an LNRS area with the development earns nothing by itself.
So a bank in East Cambridgeshire LPA holds its full value for a East Cambridgeshire LPA development, and so does one anywhere in the development's national character area, whichever council that bank answers to. Which banks those are, who runs them and what habitat they hold is what abitat intel is for.
Sourcing units in East Cambridgeshire LPA
Off-site units can come from a habitat bank anywhere in England, at a discount once it falls outside both the development's local planning authority and its national character area. abitat intel covers the whole country, so start by seeing who holds what.
Neighbouring local planning authorities
LPAs that share a border with East Cambridgeshire LPA. A bank in one of them keeps three-quarters of its value under the spatial risk multiplier, or all of it if it also falls in the development's national character area, so they are the first place to widen the search when East Cambridgeshire LPA's supply is thin.
Frequently asked
- What is biodiversity net gain in East Cambridgeshire LPA?
- Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is the statutory requirement that most new developments in England deliver at least a 10% measurable increase in biodiversity. Where on-site delivery is not possible or sufficient, developers source off-site units from habitat banks. In East Cambridgeshire LPA, off-site supply comes from the operators listed above.
- How do I source off-site BNG units for a development in East Cambridgeshire LPA?
- Calculate your deficit with the statutory metric, then find supply that covers it. abitat intel lists every habitat bank in England with its operator and habitat types, so you can see who holds the habitat you need and approach them directly. Where the bank sits changes how far it goes, because the metric's spatial risk multiplier pays units in full only where the bank is in the same local planning authority as the development or the same national character area, three-quarters in a neighbouring one, and half outside both.
- Which habitat banks are registered in East Cambridgeshire LPA?
- There are 3 habitat banks across 2 operators on the public register for East Cambridgeshire LPA. The operators are listed above, and each site is recorded with its habitat types, its extent and the LPA, NCA and LNRS area it falls in.
- Can habitat banks outside East Cambridgeshire LPA be used?
- Yes. A habitat bank in any LPA in England can be allocated to a East Cambridgeshire LPA development. What changes is the spatial risk multiplier: units count in full where the bank shares the development's local planning authority or national character area, drop to three-quarters in a neighbouring one, and to half outside both. Watercourse units are judged on waterbody and operational catchments instead.
- What's the difference between an LPA, NCA and LNRS area?
- The local planning authority (LPA) is the council that grants permission and signs off the biodiversity gain plan. The national character area (NCA) is Natural England's ecological landscape map. The statutory metric's spatial risk multiplier reads both: off-site units count in full where the bank shares the development's LPA or NCA, three-quarters in a neighbouring one, and half outside both. The local nature recovery strategy (LNRS) area does something different — it sets strategic significance, a 15% uplift for habitat work that delivers a measure the strategy mapped at that location, judged where the bank is rather than where the development is.
- Why don't you show available unit counts?
- The public register reports the physical extent of habitat: hectares of habitat, kilometres of hedgerow and watercourse. It does not report how many biodiversity units a bank has left. That depends on the condition and distinctiveness recorded in the bank's own metric and on what has already been allocated, some of which is agreed long before it reaches the register. We publish the extent, which we can stand behind, and leave availability to the operator, who is the only party that knows it.
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