Duxford Habitat Bank

Landscape-scale biodiversity net gain initiative creating biodiversity units for sale in Oxfordshire.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust are delivering a habitat bank in Duxford to  restore the river, floodplain and precious wetland habitats making it a haven for wildlife, complementing the landscape-scale conservation work already undertaken at the adjacent Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve.

A nature-led management approach will involve conservation grazing to drive the establishment of functioning ecological processes. A mosaic of key floodplain habitats will be created, such as floodplain wetland mosaic, other neutral grassland, broad-leaved woodland, and mixed scrub. This will create a range of ecological niches in which wildfowl, waders, songbirds and specialist wetland invertebrates can thrive.

The s106 agreement is in place and has been accepted onto the Biodiversity Gain Site Register (reference number: BGS-020524001).

 

Developers can secure biodiversity units for the following habitat types:

• Grassland habitats of low to high distinctiveness
• Heathland and shrub habitats of medium distinctiveness
• Woodland habitats of medium distinctiveness