{ "name": "bngassessmentcost.co.uk UK BNG Assessment Price Index", "title": "UK BNG Assessment Price Index", "url": "https://bngassessmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-bng-assessment-price-index/", "csv": "https://bngassessmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-bng-assessment-price-index.csv", "markdown": "https://bngassessmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-bng-assessment-price-index/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-28", "license": "https://bngassessmentcost.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the UK BNG Assessment Price Index is 492 GBP across 6 sources' own pages (range 295 to 589 GBP), read 11 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the UK BNG Assessment Price Index is 492 GBP across 6 sources' own pages (range 295 to 589 GBP), read 11 October 2026.", "6 of the 4 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 11 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"bngassessmentcost.co.uk UK BNG Assessment Price Index\", updated 2026-10-28, https://bngassessmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-bng-assessment-price-index/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "GBP", "n": 6, "median": 492, "min": 295, "max": 589, "p25": 373, "p75": 521.5, "mean": 461, "units": { "GBP": 6 }, "published_sources": 6, "named_sources": 47, "read_sources": 4, "not_published": 4, "published_share": 1.5 }, "by_axis": {}, "rows": [ { "source": "Ecology Surveys: Ecological Survey Services from £399 - 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quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://talk-ecology.com/ecological-services", "label": "Ecological Services, Talk-Ecology", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://tylergrange.co.uk/navigate-biodiversity-net-gain-with-ease/", "label": "Navigate Biodiversity Net Gain With Ease | Tyler Grange Blog", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.360ecology.co.uk/", "label": "Ecology Consultancy", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acerecology.co.uk/biodiversity-net-gain-bristol/", "label": "Biodiversity Net gain - Bristol - Acer Ecology", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.awareecology.co.uk/survey-information/biodiversity-net-gain-bng", "label": "BNG Surveys from £499+VAT, Aware Ecology", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.biodiversity-net-gain.co.uk/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain | Environment Act 2021 | Maydencroft", "license": "the publisher's own terms; 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quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.joesblooms.com/bng-tool", "label": "BNG Tool - Biodiversity Net Gain Calculator - Joe’s Blooms", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.luciongroup.com/services/biodiversity-net-gain/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain Consultancy | Lucion Group", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.phlorum.com/ecology/surveys/biodiversity-net-gain-surveys/", "label": "BNG Consultants: BNG Services London, Surrey, Sussex & Kent", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.richardgreenecology.co.uk/services/ecological-impact-assessment/biodiversity-net-gain/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain | Richard Green Ecology", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.southwest-environmental.co.uk/further%20info/ecology/small_sites_metric_calculation_tool.html", "label": "Small Sites Metric Calculation Tool", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.thomsonec.com/services/ecology-surveys/biodiversity-net-gain-bng/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain Consultants | Assessments & BNG Planning", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.tma-consultants.co.uk/ecological-consultants", "label": "Ecological Consultants | Surveys, BNG & Impact Assessments", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.wtconsultancies.co.uk/biodiversity-net-gain-in-practice/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain in practice | The Wildlife Trust Consultancies", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://8point9.com/biodiversity-net-gain-now-extended-to-small-sites/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain now extended to small sites - 8point9", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://acp-consultants.com/biodiversity-net-gain/biodiversity-net-gain-bng-surveys/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain Survey for Planning | ACP Consultants", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://acp-consultants.com/biodiversity-net-gain/bng-costs-pricing/", "label": "Biodiversity Net Gain Costs & Pricing | ACP", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://cieem.net/i-am/registered-practices/", "label": "Registered Practices | CIEEM", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 4 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 43 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 158 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): median, lower and upper quartile and range of the published price per deliverable (small sites metric calculation, statutory biodiversity metric with baseline habitat and condition survey, biodiversity gain plan and habitat management and monitoring plan) across every UK ecology consultancy that publishes one, beside the share that publish a price at all against quote-only; repriced-since the previous read. No consultancy publishes the market's spread; this is it.", "embed": "

492 GBP

median published figure, UK BNG Assessment Price Index, across 6 sources, read 11 October 2026

Source: bngassessmentcost.co.uk UK BNG Assessment Price Index
" }