At the moment, developers carry out lengthy assessments of the environmental impact of every project they want to carry out, focusing only on the specific place where each individual project is happening.

Under a strategic model of conservation, builders would instead rely on environmental assessments which take place over a much larger area and cover multiple projects.

If a project would have a negative impact on nature, developers would get a choice. Either continue as normal and design your own mitigations, or pay into a new Nature Restoration Fund that funds mitigations at a strategic level.

This central fund approach allows money to be pooled together to fund larger mitigations which consider British nature more broadly than a site-by-site approach.