You should only purchase biodiversity units when you are confident that:

If you're not yet at a point where a purchase of units is appropriate, but need to evidence what off-site units could do for your project with stakeholders (for example, your Local Planning Authority), we offer Availability Certificates which show what a package would have achieved for your site in its current form.

The biodiversity units which you need are wholly determined by your site's baseline habitats (what's there prior to development) and what you intend to do on your site (including any development works and any on-site biodiversity works). Therefore, if you buy biodiversity units before having settled on a firm course regarding these, and you then later change some aspect of your plans, you may find your biodiversity units are either insufficient or inappropriate for your new plans.

As an exchange platform, we can find you an optimised package of off-site units appropriate for your site and seamlessly execute the transaction, providing you with everything you need to get on with your planning application. We don't advise you on whether off-site units are in principle the right option as part of your biodiversity gain plan. This is something you need to consider when developing the biodiversity gain plan for your development. You should buy off-site biodiversity units only once you have concluded that off-site units are the right choice for you.