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Biodiversity requirements become a land-value question for developers

Habitat units are trading, and site appraisal models are being rebuilt to price them in from day one.

By Priya Raghavan · 17 August 2026 · 5 min read

Where biodiversity obligations were once treated as a late-stage planning cost, they are increasingly modelled at acquisition.

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