Selling with nature: Why the Berkeley Group committed to biodiversity net gain

Can property development improve the environment?

In 2016, London-based developer the Berkeley Group committed to increasing biodiversity on all its sites. The group’s guidance document, The Nine Concepts: Making Space For Nature and Beauty, outlines its commitment “to create places with more nature afterwards than before”.

The nine concepts are intended to inspire best practice and include: green infrastructure; management; connectivity; species diversity and adoptiveness; seasonality and maturity; habitats and vegetation types; local ecological character and distinctiveness; links to the community; and buildings and hard landscaping.

In this podcast, recorded live at The Developer’s Risk & Resilience conference in November 2019, Louise Clarke, Berkeley Group’s head of sustainable places, explains how the company is using nature to create a distinctive sense of place.

This year’s Festival of Place is happening on 7 July 2020 – go to www.festivalofplace.co.uk for updates on tickets and speakers.

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