Digitizing UK’s Biodiversity Planners

Client: Digitizing UK’s Biodiversity Planners is a UK-based startup; it was founded in 2022 to help planning applicants comply with the new Biodiversity Net Gain regulations and improve biodiversity across England. The client is developing a product to digitalize Biodiversity Gain Planners (BGP). The UK government requires the plan before permitting construction on a plot of land; this process is currently done manually with the help of Excel sheets.

Challenge: The client engaged Strategic Systems International (SSI) to replace tedious manual processes with an innovative web application. The web application will transform manual work on hand-made drawings and files into digital solutions, including maps and rules-based guidance to end customers for the best utilization of habitats and ensuring adherence to ecological guidelines.

Solution: The engineering team developed a scalable web application providing an easy way for end users to enter the land details and calculate the final gain in biodiversity. The solution offers a variety of options, enabling users to achieve a remarkable 110% increase in biodiversity compared to the original state.

Result: SSI’s team delivered the Minimum Viable Product (MVP); the client hasn’t made it commercial yet, but once commercialized, the end-user will be charged for each report generation. The client aims to integrate this platform as the standard process, backed by the full support of the UK government for preparing the BGP required before construction permission is granted.

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