As design, landscaping, ecology, and land management experts Ground Control is uniquely placed to support businesses who need to fulfill their Biodiversity (BNG) objections, and landowners who want to diversify their portfolio.
  • Landowners | Our Biodiversity (BNG) business experts assist landowners in identifying areas of their land that can be diversified through the leasing of land for BNG Units.  
  • Developers | Our units allow developers to fulfill legal obligations through the purchase of off-site units, with a habitat bank catalog to choose the units applicable to them. 

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Lease your Land to Create Units

Diversify your land portfolio with a reliable income source for up to 30 years. Landowners can lease their land for the creation of biodiversity (BNG) units. The service establishes profitability, brokers unit, and delivers habitats.
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Purchase Biodiversity (BNG) Units

Choose from our growing Biodiversity (BNG) Unit catalog and habitat bank, designed to maximise BNG and enhance nature by our in-house ecologists and land architects.
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Biodiversity Net Gain for Developers

An 8-step guide to achieving your Biodiversity Net Gain ambitions and requirements.
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Its Time to Act | Why Business Must Step Up

With just 53% of our natural wildlife and fauna left from before the industrial revolution, familiar sights like the hedgehog, dormouse or red squirrel are now rare. The turtle dove, once a commonly found bird in England, is the fastest declining bird species in the UK and on the brink of extinction following a 98% reduction in the last 40 years.

There is a clear need for business to get involved to help develop solutions. We’ve spoken to biodiversity experts from across government, technology, finance, property and consultancy to ask them what they are doing to help restore biodiversity. Many businesses want to do more but are held back by challenges like not having sufficient nature-related data. This is where partnerships between different businesses, sectors and government can be powerful, lead the way and make a movement for others to do the same.

Outlined in the State of Nature Report (2023), action is critical as:

Ecosystem restoration and landscape-scale conservation have a central role in tackling the nature and climate emergency

Time To Act: Why business must step up to address the biodiversity crisis

"Once a green and pleasant land, Britain now sits in the bottom 10 percent of countries globally for biodiversity"
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