CIEEM 2025 Spring Conference Programme

Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain at Year One: Reflections, Lessons and Future Directions

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CIEEM 2025 Spring Conference

 Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain at Year One:

Reflections, Lessons and Future Directions

18 March 2025 – Online

SESSION 1. Reflections, lessons and future directions

Chair: Penny Lewns CEcol CEnv MCIEEM, CIEEM President
9:30 Welcome and Introduction – Penny Lewns CEcol CEnv MCIEEM, CIEEM President
9:35 Keynote Address: Biodiversity Net Gain – making space for nature and people – Dr Tony Juniper CBE CEnv, Chair – Natural England
10:00 Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain at year one: reflections, lessons and future directions – a local planning authority perspective – Rachael Rhodes MCIEEM, Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service
10.25 Responsible Body – one year old and counting: lessons learnt and implications for the future – Dr Tim Graham MCIEEM and Natalie Bryce, RSK Wilding/RSK Biocensus
10:50 Break

SESSION 2. Delivering offsite BNG

Chair: Sally Hayns CEcol FCIEEM, Chief Executive Officer, CIEEM
11:20 More than Biodiversity Net Gain – the rewards and challenges of a new not-for-profit business model for BNG – Rachel Lenane CEnv MCIEEM, Gloucestershire Nature and Climate Fund
11:45 Offsite BNG: securing meaningful benefits for nature and local communities – Rachel Blount MCIEEM, Nattergal
12.15 Keeping offsite local – an example of navigating mandatory BNG – Jessica Christie GradCIWEM and Joe Gough MCIEEM, WSP
12:40 Lunch

SESSION 3. River banks and habitat banks  

Chair: Jason Reeves CEnv MCIEEM, Head of Policy, CIEEM
13:40 De-risking the delivery of off-site watercourse biodiversity units from beaver reintroduction – Dr Eleanore Miles CGeog(Geomorph), Shannon Dicks GradCIWEM, and Ian Morrissey CEnv MCIEEM, AtkinsRéalis
14:05 From baseline to bank: delivering Chalksole – Kent’s first habitat bank – Stefanie Bramley MCIEEM, Dover District Council; Liam Mattingly and Vicki Mordue MIoD AIEMA, Biodiverse Consulting
14:30 Sustainable river and catchment restoration: exploring BNG opportunities and challenges – Tom Gall, The Rivers Trust
14:55 Break

SESSION 4. Supporting resilient and deliverable BNG

Chair: Ben Kite CEcol MCIEEM, Chair of the Strategic Policy Panel, CIEEM
15:25 How and why Biodiversity Net Gain can succeed: the residential home builders’ perspective – Helen Nyul, Barratt Redrow Plc and Neil Beamsley CEcol MCIEEM, Bellway Homes
15:50 Aligning habitat bank provision with the LNRS: opportunities and barriers – Karen Lindley, Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment
16:15 Designing resilience into Biodiversity Net Gain – learning from the Environment Bank Ecology team – Fleur Wilson ACIEEM and Mike Waller, Environment Bank
16:40 Summary and Close

 

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