At HF Environmental, we specialise in securing long-term environmental commitments through conservation covenants. As a certified Responsible Body, we work with developers, landowners and local authorities to legally secure land for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and Nutrient Neutrality (NN) obligations. Through the conservation covenant approach, we provide the legal framework, all the necessary natural capital registration requirements and subsequent long-term monitoring to ensure that conservation objectives are successfully met over the long term.
The core of our purpose is to act as a pragmatic and credible enforcement body for the governance and of long-term environmental obligations through the use of world class conservation covenants creating binding commitment to environmental delivery on land.
We believe that governance of 'natural infrastructure' must become as credible and robust as for traditional infrastructure projects. Credible governance requires credible enforcement structures.
We believe that true nature recovery in the UK will require decades of sustained delivery and oversight. All too often well-intended nature efforts only make provision for the first 2, 5 or 10 years. We focus on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th decade when the next generation will experience what this generation starts building today. Leveraging our first-hand experience in delivering natural capital schemes, we've designed our approach to be centred around collaborative, long-lasting partnerships. We lean on our decades of experience to ensure a pragmatic and efficient approach for our partners.
As a family-run business, we provide stability and long-term commitment, ensuring a reliable and consistent partnership over the life of your project.
Our team's ethos is to adopt a flexible and pragmatic approach. Complex environmental projects require a collaborative and problem solving approach which we bring to everything we do. As your scheme evolves over time, we can adjust and amend the project structure as required, ensuring it continues to meet your needs.
We love to get involved in interesting, ambitious and innovative projects across the UK. Please do get in touch if you are looking to deliver a project that as objectives to endure over decades and needs credible governance and oversight.
We list some of our specific services below:
Conservation Covenants are our core mechanism for securing long-term environmental commitments. A Conservation Covenant legally secures land for a specified environmental outcome. Under our legal framework we provide all the necessary establishment, long-term monitoring and enforcement infrastructure to ensure conservation objectives are successfully met over the long term.
We work with many of the leading environmental landowners and managers in England. We offer long-term partnerships for the delivery of all types of natural capital. We have market leading experience in delivery of BNG and Nutrient Neutrality schemes, and are at the forefront of developing further layering of natural capital services as they start to generate revenue over the decades ahead.
We offer professional, pragmatic and expert advice on all natural capital matters. Our six years of operational experience as a landowner in the natural capital sector give us a unique perspective which we bring to bear on our landowner partner schemes.
We work with a wide range of UK businesses delivering specific natural capital solutions for development projects, as well as wider environmental initiatives for businesses wishing to bring about positive environmental change. Increasingly businesses are seeking to ensure that their ESG offering includes real delivery for nature alongside the more standard reporting required for internal governance.
We establish and oversee bespoke nature delivery programmes for businesses who wish to lead or associate themselves with schemes that deliver outcomes both in the near term, but also on a sustainable long-term basis.
We provide governance services to nature organisations looking to establish robust and enforceable governance around long-term environmental commitments. These arrangements can endure in perpetuity.
Interested in securing the credible delivery of environmental outcomes over decades for your organisation?
Contact us today to discuss your project.