GainScout: BNG Land Finder

About

GainScout is the fastest way to take a first look at whether a piece of land in England could be a candidate for Biodiversity Net Gain, the planning rule that has developers paying landowners to make land better for nature. Point the map at a field and press one button. GainScout reads the exact spot against official, public government datasets and gives you a plain-English answer in seconds, with every finding's source and the date it was checked. Nothing is estimated, nothing is invented. WHAT EVERY CHECK READS • Statutory designations: SSSI, SAC, SPA, Ramsar, national and local nature reserves • Ancient woodland and priority habitats • Agricultural land grade, with the "best and most versatile" farmland flagged • Flood risk zones • Green Belt, National Landscapes and conservation areas • The Local Nature Recovery Strategy for the area • Your buyer catchment: the planning authority and National Character Area the land sits in, the two boundaries that decide whether a development can use units from it at full value • What developments in that authority have actually taken from the public register of gain sites • Whether the habitat and the farmland grade together leave much room to improve, or little • A warning when ground looks uncultivated or semi-natural, which can need a decision from Natural England before any work starts • The registered gain sites near the land, the supply already competing nearby, and how many of them have had nothing allocated yet BUILT FOR THE JOB • Save sites and track them from "watching" to "in talks" • Add a walkover checklist that says what can be surveyed this month, plus notes and timestamped evidence photos • Create a dated, professional report with findings, sources, your photos and an OS grid reference, ready to hand to an agent, ecologist or buyer, and export it as a PDF • Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with your sites, reports and photos synced through your own iCloud PRO • Unlimited land checks and reports • Area Scan, to rank the most promising spots across an area • Draw your parcel, tracing a boundary for instant acreage and a spot-by-spot check • Browse every registered gain site near any land • Compare saved sites side by side FAIR TO TRY GainScout is in beta at the moment, so while feedback is coming in the free allowance is temporarily larger: five land checks a week instead of three, five saved sites instead of three, two extra free reports on top of the usual one, and one Area Scan a week, which is normally part of Pro. That runs until 31 December 2026, after which the free allowance returns to three checks a week, three saved sites and one free report. Buy reports one at a time or by the pack, or subscribe to Pro. No account, no ads, no tracking. GainScout Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly, quarterly or yearly. Payment is taken by your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://leonfigueira.github.io/runlow-site/gainscout-privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/