Lowland Heathland
A heather- and gorse-dominated habitat on low-nutrient, free-draining soils — a UK priority habitat that is rare and hard to recreate. Supports reptiles, ground-nesting birds and invertebrates where conditions suit, and is high-distinctiveness habitat under the Defra Biodiversity Metric 4.0.
Carbon and evidence
Carbon Sink & Ecosystem Services
A living landscape element — a carbon sink and provider of ecosystem services, not a manufactured product. Its value is measured by sequestration and biodiversity, not embodied carbon, and it must never be netted against a product’s A1–A3.
Carbon Sequestration
Not sequestration-led
The primary value here is biodiversity and/or water function, not carbon storage.
Biodiversity Net Gain
lowland heathland is a UK priority habitat and high-distinctiveness
Source: Defra Biodiversity Metric 4.0
England requires a 10% Biodiversity Net Gain; distinctiveness is one input to the habitat unit calculation.
Ecosystem Services
Establishment & Maintenance
requires low-nutrient, often stripped substrate; genuinely difficult and slow to create
Read This Honestly
- •Hard to create — depends on the right (poor, acidic, free-draining) soils.
- •Carbon value is modest; biodiversity is the point.
Reference Sources
Products in this category
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Specification
- Finish
- Heather / gorse habitat
- Service life
- 60 years