A trusted route to Biodiversity Net Gain
Wates Wildscape delivers high-quality offsite BNG units across a growing network of habitat sites helping you meet Biodiversity Net Gain requirements with confidence while delivering lasting value for nature.
Backed by over a century of development expertise and a and a long-term commitment to re-imagining thriving places.
Why choose
Wates Wildscape?
Understanding developer needs
drives every stage of our design
High-quality, real habitat creation
that delivers a net gain for nature
Long-term stewardship
embedded in projects from day one
Wates family ownership
ensures consistency and accountability
Assured compliance
streamlined with BNG requirements
A 125-year legacy
of industry-leading excellence
Built on experience
At Wates we have a long-term vision for nature
When it comes to Biodiversity Net Gain, we understand what’s at stake.
As developers ourselves, we recognise the commercial pressures, planning requirements, and delivery challenges involved.
That’s why Wates Wildscape focuses on creating high-quality, compliant offsite BNG habitat banks and stellar customer service – helping you secure the units you need to progress through planning with confidence.
Biodiversity Net Gain provides a powerful opportunity to deliver measurable environmental impact and strengthen ESG performance. Wates Wildscape offers high-quality, transparent solutions that enable organisations to invest in genuine, long-term biodiversity outcomes—supporting credible sustainability strategies and demonstrating meaningful action to stakeholders.
As part of Wates Group, a family-owned business with over 125 years of experience, we bring the stability, expertise and long-term commitment needed to deliver with confidence. We bring together our expertise in land, construction and environmental planning to create habitat sites that deliver for both development and biodiversity. For our clients and partners , that means a reliable route to securing high-quality BNG units. For nature, it means restoring ecosystems in a meaningful and lasting way.
Our approach genuinely supports a wide range of needs, from developers meeting planning requirements to organisations delivering environmental commitments, through to large-scale infrastructure projects requiring long-term, reliable solutions.
Every habitat site is:
- Designed by qualified ecologists and specialists
- Managed over the long term to ensure sustained biodiversity gains
- Independently overseen to provide assurance and transparency
This is not a one-off project, it’s a structured, long-term approach to nature recovery, with management plans in place for 30 years and beyond.
We are committed to building and investing in a national network of high-quality, biodiverse spaces across a growing portfolio of habitat sites.
Through Wates Wildscape, we are creating landscapes that not only meet Biodiversity Net Gain requirements, but actively contribute to reversing nature’s decline at scale.
Our approach combines long-term stewardship with strategic investment, unlocking the value of land by transforming it into thriving natural capital assets. This enables us to support sustainable development across the UK—providing developers with the confidence and capacity they need, while offering corporate partners a credible, measurable way to deliver against their ESG commitments.
By connecting projects into a cohesive, expanding network, we ensure that the impact goes beyond individual sites—delivering meaningful ecological enhancement, strengthening resilience in natural systems, and creating lasting value for communities, businesses, and the environment.
Locations
A growing network of habitat sites
Sites available now
LPA: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
NCA: High Weald
LNRS: Kent and Medway
Ashurst is Wates Wildscape’s first operational habitat site, providing a real-world example of Biodiversity Net Gain in practice.
The site is being transformed to deliver a diverse range of habitats, including grassland, scrub, woodland and wetland. With over 100 BNG units available, Ashurst provides an immediate, compliant solution for developments in the surrounding area.
The site has been designed to deliver long-term biodiversity gains, supported by structured management over 30 years and beyond. Ashurst demonstrates the full Wates Wildscape model – converting land into a functioning ecological asset while providing developers with a reliable route to meeting BNG requirements.
A large-scale habitat creation scheme
LPA: Wiltshire Council
NCA: Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs
LNRS: Wiltshire and Swindon
Chilmark represents a significant step forward in the scale of Wates Wildscape’s offering.
Spanning 164 acres, the site will deliver approximately 375 BNG units through a range of habitats including grassland, woodland, orchards and scrub.
This site showcases how Wildscape can deliver biodiversity at scale – supporting both development and meaningful, long-term nature recovery.
A new site in a key growth region
LPA: North Northamptonshire Council
NCA: Rockingham Forest
LNRS: North Northamptonshire
Our Kettering site expands the Wildscape portfolio into the Midlands, supporting demand across a major commercial and logistics hub. Spanning 147 acres in North Northamptonshire, the site is expected to deliver over 260 Biodiversity Net Gain units through a mix of habitats, including wetland, grassland and woodland.
As BNG delivery is location-specific, early engagement is important to secure the right units, as availability varies by location.
Meet the Experts
Supporting developers, infrastructure and organisations
Wates Wildscape supports a wide range of clients, from developers meeting planning requirements to organisations delivering long-term environmental goals. We provide a clear, reliable route to securing BNG units and delivering measurable outcomes, tailored to the needs of each project, location and programme.
A dependable route to compliance
For developments where BNG cannot be achieved on site, Wates Wildscape provides a clear and reliable alternative.
- Access to high-quality offsite BNG units
- Alignment with local requirements.
- A structured and transparent process
- Support from a team with development expertise
We understand the challenges of delivering projects and work to provide solutions that support progress.
Supporting long-term environmental commitments
Wates Wildscape enables organisations to contribute to nature recovery in a structured and measurable way.
Through our habitat sites, you can:
- Support biodiversity and ecosystem restoration
- Demonstrate progress against environmental goals
- Engage stakeholders through meaningful activity
- Build long-term partnerships linked to real-world outcomes
This is a practical and credible way to turn commitments into measurable delivery.
Designed for scale and long-term delivery
We support infrastructure providers and public sector organistaions with offsite solutions suited to large, complex programmes.
- Access to high-quality offsite BNG units
- Alignment to local nature requirements and planning obligations
- Transparency and independent oversight
- Backed by national expertise and capability
- Suitable for large, complex programmes with long-term delivery requirements
Our approach is designed to provide confidence over the full lifecycle of a project.
A clear route to Biodiversity Net Gain
We provide a straightforward, dependable route to securing offsite BNG units when on site solutions aren’t viable. Our process is straightforward, transparent and tailored to support your project from initial requirement through to long-term delivery.
1
Share your requirements
Contact our team and outline your Biodiversity Net Gain needs, including the location, unit requirements and project timelines
2
We assess and respond
We review your requirements and get in touch to discuss details. We’ll provide a clear, no-obligation quote, outlining suitable, cost-effective options, with the flexibility to align to your project needs and programme
3
Secure your units
You enter into a BNG Offsite Allocation Agreement and pay a Reservation Fee to secure your units.
4
Planning condition discharge
When discharging your BNG planning condition, the remaining balance is paid and your allocation is registered on the Biodiversity Gain Site Register
“Combining our passion for sustainability with our development expertise, we work with nature to create high-quality habitats and nature-based solutions where people and wildlife can thrive.”
Reversing biodiversity decline and supporting landowners and developers
We design and deliver high-quality, ecologically valuable habitat sites that generate BNG units. These habitat sites provide developers with a reliable, compliant route to meet planning obligations, while also creating wild spaces for nature to flourish.
We create species-rich grasslands that support pollinators and other wildlife, while being low-maintenance and adaptable to many landscapes. These habitats are ideal for offsetting biodiversity loss from urban development.
Native woodlands and transitional scrub areas help lock in carbon, enhance biodiversity, and support a wide range of bird and mammal species. They’re long-term investments in ecological recovery.
Wet habitats like reedbeds, ponds and floodplains support amphibians, insects, and water birds — and help with natural flood management and water quality improvement..
Linear habitats like hedgerows create vital ecological corridors for wildlife. They also enhance connectivity between habitats, boosting the value of neighbouring green spaces.
Every site is different. We can work with landowners and developers to design bespoke habitat packages that align with local planning needs and deliver measurable biodiversity uplift.
In conversation: Wates Wildscape
Why we work with nature to create high quality habitats and other solutions where people and wildlife can thrive.
Talk to an expert
Olivia Dear
Sustainability & Wates Wildscape Director
Wates Wildscape
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