GainScout

GainScout is the fastest way to take a first look at whether a piece of land in England could be a candidate for Biodiversity Net Gain, the planning rule that has developers paying landowners to make land better for nature.

One button, official data

Point the map at a field and press one button. GainScout reads that exact spot against official public government datasets and gives you a plain English answer in seconds, with every finding's source and the date it was checked. Nothing is estimated and nothing is invented.

What every check reads

• Statutory designations: SSSI, SAC, SPA, Ramsar, national and local nature reserves
• Ancient woodland and priority habitats
• Agricultural land grade, with the best and most versatile farmland flagged
• Flood risk zones
• Green Belt, National Landscapes and conservation areas
• The Local Nature Recovery Strategy for the area
• Registered biodiversity gain sites nearby, the off site market you would price against

Built for the job

• Save sites and track them from watching to in talks
• Add a walkover checklist, notes and timestamped evidence photos
• Create a dated report with findings, sources, your photos and an OS grid reference, ready to hand to an agent, ecologist or buyer, and export it as a PDF
• Area Scan to rank the most promising spots across an area
• Draw your parcel to trace a boundary for instant acreage and a spot by spot check
• Sites, reports and photos synced through your own iCloud