Announcing Our Building with Nature Consultancy

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Building with Nature Consultancy service; this means that in addition to our existing consultancy service - supporting our clients to bring nature-based designs into their interior spaces using Biophilic Design strategies - we will also be able to help our clients to create high quality green infrastructure in exterior spaces. Thus, embedding a green thread of wellbeing throughout schemes from inside to out.

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Why now?

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With Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) becoming mandatory this week ensuring developments are contributing to wildlife recovery is at the forefront of everyone's mind. The legislation, which requires schemes to ensure that habitats for wildlife are in measurable better state after the development than they were before, is the biggest change to planning regulations in decades.

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Building with Nature standards are consistent with and compliment planning policy in England regarding delivering Green Infrastructure; helping to reduce planning risk by ensuring developments are aligned with current and emerging policy themes for climate change, nature recovery and people’s wellbeing. 

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How our approach to Building with Nature can help

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Our Building with Nature (BwN) consultancy service will help organisations/companies to:

• Align external Green Infrastructure provision with internal Biophilic Design approaches. 
• Establish a clear vision for the Green Infrastructure within the project team from day one. 
• Facilitate communication across project teams – saving time and resources. 
• Reduce cost incurred from failing at planning stage – ensuring the BwN standards are met will confirm Green Infrastructure planning compliance. 
• Communicate the benefits of the scheme to the local area and communities.
• Create a model for learning – meeting BwN standards on previous schemes can be communicated easily as further schemes are undertaken.

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What next?

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Whether you are considering going for certification, or simply want to embed the Building with Nature approach in your project there are numerous benefits. If you would like to discuss how me and my team at Oliver Heath Design can help you create high-quality Green Infrastructure within your schemes, using the Building with Nature Framework then drop us a line using the link below.