Habitat bank · illustrative plan · not to scale, not a location map

Two farms, three blocks of land

Kettleby Phase 1 is drawn from the Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan of March 2026; Phase 2 and Low Farm are proportion diagrams from their metrics. The shapes and the way the parcels sit against each other are true to the ecologist’s plan; everything that would pin the site to a point on the ground — basemap, place names, grid reference, scale — has been left off deliberately.

100.58Area habitat units, net gain
17.47Hedgerow units, net gain
0.28Watercourse units, net gain
18.63Hectares, five field parcels
59.9Area units, Phase 2 — with the council
426.49Area units, Low Farm — registered
28.92Hedgerow units, Low Farm — registered
99.2Hectares in habitat, all three

The plan

Kettleby, Phase 118.63 ha · passed by the council
PARCELS TO SCALE · SHAPES AND POSITION ARE NOT 1 10 3 2 9 7 5 8 6 4 1 and 2 Wildflower grassland · 3 Tussocky grassland · 4 to 8 Mixed scrub · 9 and 10 Broadleaved woodland Parcel numbers match the management plan and the units table. Areas come from the metric; the shapes, and where they sit against each other, do not. The blue boundary is the enhanced stretch of priority habitat river.
Kettleby, Phase 210.75 ha · with the council
PARCELS TO SCALE · SHAPES AND POSITION ARE NOT 3 1 2 6 5 1 Species-rich grassland · 2 Mixed scrub, created · 3 Open mosaic habitat · 5 Mixed scrub, enhanced · 6 Ponds, retained Parcel numbers are the metric's own row references. Areas come from it; the shapes, where the parcels sit, and where the three hedgerow runs fall, do not.
Low Farm Habitat Bank69.85 ha · BGS-260626001
PARCELS TO SCALE · SHAPES AND POSITION ARE NOT 1 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 19 15 12 16 20 17 21 22 13 27 23 24 18 26 25 14 1 to 10 Species-rich grassland · 11 to 14 Broadleaved woodland · 15 to 18 Lowland meadow · 19 to 21 Grassland restored · 22 to 25 Mixed scrub 26 Other woodland · 27 Ponds Areas come from the metric. The larger parcels are single rows in it; the smallest are grouped, and the pond is drawn larger than scale so it can be seen. The shapes, and where the parcels sit against each other, are not from the metric. Parcels under a fifth of a hectare are left off: 0.03 ha in all.

What is on the ground — Phase 1

ParcelHectaresConditionUnits
1Other neutral grasslandWildflower · medium distinctiveness4.52Good41.80
2Other neutral grasslandWildflower · medium distinctiveness2.82Good26.07
3Other neutral grasslandTussocky · medium distinctiveness3.16Moderate23.24
4Mixed scrubMedium distinctiveness0.18Good1.70
5Mixed scrubMedium distinctiveness0.31Good2.84
6Mixed scrubMedium distinctiveness0.19Good1.79
7Mixed scrubMedium distinctiveness0.22Good2.03
8Mixed scrubMedium distinctiveness0.21Good1.94
9Other woodland, broadleavedMedium distinctiveness2.81Moderate14.51
10Other woodland, broadleavedMedium distinctiveness4.13Moderate21.28
Area habitats created18.55137.20
Net gain after the arable baseline100.58
New hedgerow — h5 to h121.91 km25.06
Watercourse — priority habitat river0.31 km5.39

What is proposed — Phase 2

A further 10.75 hectares, straddling North Lincolnshire and West Lindsey. Going in to the council now and under discussion with them. The figures are not signed off and will move if the council asks for changes.

ParcelHabitat proposedHectaresConditionUnits
3Open mosaic on previously developed landHigh distinctiveness5.63Good47.54
1Other neutral grasslandMedium distinctiveness2.71Good22.79
2Mixed scrub, createdMedium distinctiveness0.91Good7.64
5Mixed scrub, enhancedExisting scrub brought up, not planted0.07Good0.65
6Ponds, non-priorityRetained as they are, not replaced1.43Unchanged—
Created and enhanced9.3278.62
Net gain after the baseline59.9
New hedgerow — three runs, one with trees0.74 km6.14
Phase 2 is the high-distinctiveness half. Every habitat at Phase 1 is medium distinctiveness. The open mosaic block at Phase 2 is high, which is the only kind of unit that can answer a high-distinctiveness loss. Phase 2 also straddles West Lindsey District Council and North Lincolnshire Council, where Phase 1 sits in North Lincolnshire alone.
These are post-intervention totals, not the net gain. The land started as 18.63 ha of arable carrying 37.25 area units, 7.58 hedgerow units and 5.11 watercourse units. The net gain is 100.58 area units, 17.47 hedgerow units and 0.28 watercourse units — and the net figures are what a developer buys against.

What is on the ground — Low Farm Habitat Bank

Sixty-nine and a half hectares across the North Lincolnshire and West Lindsey boundary, approved by both councils and on the biodiversity gain sites register as BGS-260626001. The figures below are what each habitat is worth after the work; the baseline comes off at the bottom.

ParcelHabitat proposedHectaresBandUnits
1–10Species-rich grassland, createdOn 52 ha of cereal ground52.38Medium456.50
11–14Broadleaved woodland, restoredAlready there · moderate and poor to good7.36High104.15
15–18Lowland meadow, restoredOut of arable margins and rough grass3.57V. high44.68
19–21Other neutral grassland, restoredBrought up rather than reseeded3.97Medium34.14
22–25Mixed scrub, created2.16Medium19.40
27Ponds, created0.16Medium1.62
26Other broadleaved woodland, restored0.21Medium1.60
—Rural trees, plantedForty-six of them0.18Medium0.56
—Blackthorn scrub, restored0.03Medium0.31
After the work is done70.04662.95
Less the land as it is today69.85−236.47
Net gain, area habitat426.49
New hedgerow with trees — thirteen runs, no baseline3.13 km28.92
This is where the high bands are. Everything at Kettleby Phase 1 is medium distinctiveness. Low Farm’s carries 44.68 very-high-distinctiveness units in lowland meadow, 7.92 high-band area units from the restored woodland, and 28.92 high-band hedgerow units. Under the trading rules a loss can only be replaced by the same band or better, so those are the units that answer the losses nothing else here can.
Four gain sites, not one. The land crosses both a council boundary and a character-area boundary, so the metric records it four times: West Lindsey · Wolds (183.75 area, 16.15 hedgerow); North Lincolnshire · Central Lincolnshire Vale (168.89, 9.62); West Lindsey · Central Lincolnshire Vale (58.79, 2.57); North Lincolnshire · Wolds (15.06, 0.58). The spatial risk multiplier is 1.00 for a scheme in any of them.
Deliberately left off: the Ordnance Survey basemap, the grid reference, the scale bar, road and place names, the site’s postal address, and the ecologist’s drawing number. The parcel shapes and their arrangement are true to Figure 2 of the HMMP; nothing here locates the land.