Morgan Taylor#13215

Morgan Taylor

Morgan leads Greengage Environmental Ltd’s Nature team and has over 12 years’ experience leading on biodiverse green infrastructure design and complex ecological assessment for major development schemes and portfolio management projects. He works to deliver Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain (BNG and ENG) and improvements in ecosystem service provision, complementing wider climate change adaptation measures. He was listed on the ENDS Power List 2023 as one of the UK's 100 most influential environmental professionals. He has sat on the panel for the UKGBC’s Nature Based Solution Steering Group, CIEEM’s Action 2030 Climate Change response group as well as the British Standard for Biodiversity Net Gain working group. He is on the quality review panels for the London Borough of Havering and Essex County Council as the biodiversity specialist. He also contributed to the UKGBC’s ‘Demystifying Green Infrastructure’ guidance document. Morgan is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), a Full member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and holds survey licences for bats and dormice.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Experience

  • Environmental Perspectives LLP (2011 - 2011)

Membership

  • Society for the Environment (SocEnv) Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)
  • Full Member of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MCIEEM)

Qualification

  • MSci Marine Biology (2012)

Education

  • University of Southampton (2008-2012)

1 Contributions by Morgan Taylor

Delivering Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain in England: Consultant insights on the Statutory Biodiversity Metric, process, trading rules and practical challenges for planning and environmental lawyers
PRACTICE NOTES
Delivering Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain in England: Consultant insights on the Statutory Biodiversity Metric, process, trading rules and practical challenges for planning and environmental lawyers
Purpose of Practice Note This Practice Note explores the idea of biodiversity net gain (BNG). Drawing on expertise from a specialist consultancy, it explains how the compulsory BNG regime is presently being applied on the ground. It does not describe the legislative framework for BNG; that is contained in Practice Note: Biodiversity net gain in England, which ought to be used alongside this Note. How does biodiversity net gain work in practice? This Practice Note aims to answer the following questions: How are biodiversity units (BU) derived? What constitute good practice principles for BNG? What does the BNG process usually entail? What frequent obstacles arise when implementing BNG? How are biodiversity units calculated? Calculating baseline biodiversity units BNG adopts habitat type and condition as a stand-in for total biodiversity value, expressed as BU and computed via the Statutory Biodiversity Metric (SBM). BU are divided, where relevant to a site, into area-based habitat units (HU), linear hedgerow units (HeU), and aquatic linear watercourse units (WU). HU, HeU and WU are handled independently for two reasons...
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