A family farm that runs habitat banks, now sourcing BNG units across England
BNG Sourced by Green Acres BNG is the national sourcing service of Green Acres BNG, a Northumberland family farm that has looked after its land for generations and runs two registered habitat banks of its own.
- One requirement, one point of contact, supply from across England
- Every option checked against your metric, the trading rules and the spatial risk multiplier
- Whole and fractional units of all three types, with planning-ready documentation
- Free for developers: where our involvement results in an introduction, the provider pays us an introduction fee
Tell us your BNG requirements
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The Green Acres story
Green Acres BNG began as a working farm in Northumberland. When mandatory biodiversity net gain arrived in England in 2024, the family turned part of that land into habitat banks: Netherton Park near Morpeth, registered under a Section 106 agreement and High Spen in Gateshead. Both are on Natural England’s biodiversity gain site register and both are managed for the full 30 years and beyond that BNG demands.
Running habitat banks taught the team two things. First, developers across England have the same problem: a metric that shows an off-site deficit and no clear way to find units that fit it. Second, the answer is rarely one bank. It is the right units, of the right type and distinctiveness, in the right place for the multiplier, from whichever provider has them.
Why national sourcing
Green Acres’ own banks serve the North East. BNG Sourced by Green Acres BNG exists to serve the rest of England the same way: you tell us your requirement once, our specialists source potential supply from landowners, habitat bank operators and BNG providers across England, match it to your metric and the trading rules and make the introduction. The service is free for developers. Where our involvement results in an introduction, the BNG provider pays us an introduction fee.
The team’s expertise
Our specialists have hands-on experience of registering gain sites, securing them through Section 106 agreements and conservation covenants, producing planning-ready documentation and working with ecologists, consultants and planning authorities on allocations. They apply that experience to every requirement we source, whether the units come from Green Acres’ land or from another provider.
How we handle data and facts
Every regulatory fact on this site carries a last-checked date against gov.uk and legislation.gov.uk. Supply outlooks are produced automatically from Natural England’s biodiversity gain site register, refreshed every day; we never estimate. Price ranges are compiled from published England pricing reports and gov.uk statutory credit prices, presented conservatively and labelled indicative, because only a provider can confirm a price. The method is set out on the data and methodology page.
Who the service is for
- Developers and housebuilders with an off-site deficit, from a fraction of a unit to hundreds
- Infrastructure promoters preparing for mandatory BNG on NSIPs from 2 November 2026
- Ecologists and planning consultants who want sourcing taken off their desk without losing the client relationship
- Landowners and habitat bank operators with units to allocate or land that could create them
What we do not do
We do not give ecological, planning, legal or financial advice. We do not act as a marketplace or publish provider details. We do not charge developers and we do not take payment on a provider’s behalf. We source, check and introduce.
Community, charity and environment
Profits from Green Acres’ habitat banks support local community, charity and environmental projects. Optional CSR and carbon add-ons are available on request alongside units from Green Acres.
The people behind the service
A family-led team that has registered and manages its own habitat banks, with development-side and client-side experience alongside the ecology. Your requirement is handled by Mike Dungait from first contact to allocation.
Mike Dungait
Managing Director, environmentalist and BNG specialist
Mike has farmed all his life and founded Green Acres BNG to help landowners and developers deliver biodiversity net gain that is practical, ecologically effective and commercially sound. He moved the family farm towards sustainable methods long before BNG became mandatory, took Netherton Park and High Spen through registration and now leads the sourcing service. Mike reviews every requirement and every guide on this site and is the named specialist developers deal with.
Matt Haycock
Director, business development
Matt leads business development and client relationships. He works with developers, consultants and professional partners to connect them with legally secured off-site BNG supply that supports planning compliance and reduces long-term liability. With a background in design, marketing and strategic growth, Matt keeps the service focused on what developers need: fractional and whole units, planning-ready documentation and long-term habitat stewardship.
Claire Dungait
Non-executive Director, BNG and corporate development
Claire supports the growth of the family-led business and acts as a point of contact for businesses navigating BNG for the first time. With a background in business development and client relations and years behind the scenes of the family farm, she focuses on partnerships, transparency and making sustainability achievable, including the CSR and community value that habitat banks can deliver alongside units.
Chris Nunn
Non-executive Director, construction and development adviser
Chris is a construction and development specialist who helps contractors, developers, consultants and landowners grow in their markets and sources land opportunities for developers. He brings development-side insight to Green Acres BNG so that BNG solutions account for site constraints, programme and land relationships and are development-ready as well as ecologically credible.
Andrew Fenwick
Head of Web & Digital, One Design Group
Andrew built this site and runs its search and AI visibility. He is Head of Web and Digital at One Design Group, a North East agency supporting the project and spent the first half of his career as a staff writer and journalist before moving into WordPress development and SEO. He studied artificial intelligence at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and now specialises in making businesses findable by people and by the AI assistants they ask first. A lifelong lover of the outdoors and of the technology that helps protect it, from habitat mapping to the register data behind this site, he sees BNG as one of the rare places where development, farming and nature all come out ahead.
How Mike and the team work
Every requirement is handled by Mike Dungait from first contact to allocation. They translate the metric into a sourcing brief, search registered supply across England, check the trading rules and the multiplier, confirm register status and the legal agreement for each candidate site and present the options with the arithmetic shown. Because the team runs two gain sites, they know what providers need from a buyer and what planning authorities expect in a gain plan, which keeps allocations moving.
What we stand for
- Plain answers first, then the detail
- Nothing invented: every fact dated and sourced, every outlook from verifiable data
- Free for developers, paid by providers and we say so on every page
- Habitat managed for the long term by people with a stake in it
Work with people who run habitat banks themselves
Tell us your requirement and we will start sourcing.