£500m Nature Restoration Fund: Position Your Scheme to Benefit

What the fund changes

Government support to restore nature and boost planning capacity creates an opportunity for projects that can demonstrate credible environmental uplift. Bids and planning submissions that clearly align with restoration priorities—and back claims with data—will rise to the top of the pile.

A concise Phase 1 Desktop Study sets your baseline: existing habitats, contamination constraints, receptors, and water environment. From there, you can propose targeted measures that deliver measurable gains, with SuDS features sized from Infiltration Testing to create wetland and edge habitats rather than purely functional basins.

Positioning your scheme

Frame your proposal around outcomes that matter locally: improving water quality, connecting habitat corridors, and creating accessible green spaces. Show how constraints flagged in the Phase 1 Desktop Study are being addressed—e.g., remediation enabling native planting or buffer zones to protect receptors. Provide simple monitoring commitments so benefits are credible and trackable.

One town‑centre regeneration bid paired Phase 1 Desktop Study findings with a nature‑positive landscape plan and secured strong feedback at pre‑app—because the benefits were evidenced, costed, and maintainable.

Tie BNG to SuDS

Design SuDS that do more than store water. With infiltration proven by field testing, basins and swales can be shaped to provide varied depths, marginal planting, and amenity space. That achieves biodiversity net gain alongside flood betterment—exactly the kind of multifunctional outcome funders and planners prioritise. EnviroSolution can structure the Phase 1 Desktop Study and Infiltration Testing so your submission clearly aligns with funding and policy goals.