Registered biodiversity net gain units available now

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Spains Hall Estate is a registered BNG gain site under the Natural England Biodiversity Gain Site Register (BGS-120925001 and BGS-080925001). We offer immediately available and pipeline biodiversity units across area habitat, hedgerow and watercourse types, serving developers, infrastructure providers and utilities across East Anglia and beyond.

Registered gain site with units available immediately. Serving 12 Local Planning Authorities and 7 National Character Areas across Essex, East Anglia and the OxCam Arc.

Biodiversity Net Gain

Landscape-scale holistic nature recovery project generating BNG units for developers

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Agroforestry

Perennial nut cropping cropping to reduce pollution, adapt to climate change and serve the local healthy food market

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Nature-based solutions

Harnessing the incredible power of nature to drive change

Beaver engineering

Natural Flood Management

Holistic water management

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Environment & Biodiversity

Working with, and for, our natural environment

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People

Partnerships to heal and inform

Education visits

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Step into the future of UK land use with us as we establish a completely new model of farming using trees (agroforestry), nature-based approaches to conservation and climate action.


We are the proud home of the first beavers to return to Essex for over 400 years. As a working farming estate we care deeply about our environment, woodlands and the wildlife we provide a home for.

Latest news

by Archie Ruggles-Brise 19 May 2025
By Sarah Brockless (Head of Conservation) 19th May 2025
by Archie Ruggles-Brise 9 December 2024
By Sarah Brockless (Estate Ecologist) 9th December 2024
by Archie Ruggles-Brise 18 October 2024
New tool makes working out which NCA you are in far easier
by Archie Ruggles-Brise 9 September 2024
Summer has been full of excitement on the estate with the discovery of a potentially important bat roost
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