UK Land & Habitat Management

Land & Biodiversity Stewardship

Specialist land management for Biodiversity Net Gain. Practical, ecologically informed habitat creation and management to help you meet your BNG obligations.

Newly planted tree saplings in protective tubes across a meadow, with hills and open sky behind — habitat creation in progress.

About LBS

LBS offers specialist land management services designed to help landowners, habitat bank operators and developers achieve their Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) obligations with confidence.

LBS’s approach blends practical landscape management with ecological insight, ensuring your site not only meets its target conditions but flourishes over the full thirty-year commitment period.

Whether you need general contract management help, specialist landscape intervention, advice on habitat creation and maintenance, or just assistance in meeting the objectives of your HABITAT MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PLANS (HMMPs), LBS is able to help.

LBS’s Services

Integrated land management services tailored to your habitat gain site.

BNG Site Establishment & Habitat Creation

  • Delivery of BNG habitat creation plans
  • Soil preparation, planting, seeding, water management
  • Invasive species control and early-stage habitat protection

Long-Term Habitat Management

  • Implementation of HMMPs
  • Annual and seasonal maintenance tailored to habitat type
  • Grassland, woodland, wetland, scrub and hedgerow management
  • Adaptive management to keep habitats on target

BNG Habitat Monitoring & Reporting

  • Site inspections to assess habitat success or degradation
  • Progress tracking using photographic evidence
  • Habitat condition progress reports and action plans

Ecological Enhancement & Problem Solving

  • Strategies to improve habitat condition scores
  • Remedial work where habitats fall short of expected targets
  • Practical solutions to improve biodiversity performance

Why use LBS’s services

Practical, ecologically informed habitat creation and management to help you meet your BNG obligations.

BNG habitat being managed to meet its target conditions.

BNG Focused Expertise

LBS understands the unique demands of BNG and manages sites to achieve target conditions.

Hands-on practical landscape management work in progress on site.

Hands-On, Practical Landscape Management

Assured experience ensures your site is managed efficiently, safely, and in line with ecological best practice.

An established habitat maintained consistently over the long term.

Reliable Long-Term Partnership

BNG is a thirty-year commitment. LBS provides continuity, consistency, and a proactive approach that protects your investment.

A site managed to reflect its own particular land and objectives.

Tailored to Your Land and Your Objectives

Every site is different. LBS will tailor their recommendations to reflect your land’s constraints and opportunities.

Who is LBS?

Portrait of Will Salvetti, founder of LBS, standing in front of a stack of timber.
Will Salvetti CMLI · MA · BSc (Hons)

I am a Chartered Landscape Manager with over 20 years of hands-on experience managing landscape maintenance and environmental enhancement projects.

I have extensive experience delivering long-term landscape maintenance and ecological mitigation contracts, with a detailed understanding of the technical, regulatory and operational challenges inherent in multi-year contracts. Having worked with a broad range of contractors, I’ve built a strong and trusted supply chain network and have the skills to coordinate contractors, ecologists and wider multi-disciplinary teams so projects run efficiently and deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.

My background covers the full range of practical landscape management activities — including planting schemes, vegetation control, ground preparation, drainage works, ecological mitigation installations, species-rich grassland establishment, wetland and pond creation, and much more.

I bring a deep understanding of the UK’s environment, natural systems and ecological processes alongside strong project and asset management experience. I welcome the opportunity to discuss your land or habitat challenges and provide practical, achievable solutions tailored to your objectives.

Contact LBS

For a no-obligation conversation about your land, habitat and BNG obligations.

CV available on request.

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