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Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025 entries

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1. Placemaking for Nature Award: Single Building
2. Placemaking for Nature Award: Multi-property
3. Placemaking for Nature Award: Mixed Land Use and Ownership
4. Biodiversity Feature Award: Nature Recovery
5. Biodiversity Feature Award: Coastal Eco-engineering
6. Biodiversity Feature Award: Infrastructure Networks
7. Biodiversity Feature Award: Water Management
8. Innovation for Nature Award
9. Biodiversity Champion Award: Early Career Professional
10. Biodiversity Champion Award: Established Professional

1. Placemaking for Nature Award: Single Building
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2. Placemaking for Nature Award: Multi-property

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Kingsbrook Barratt Redrow	Green Health Walk Sow the City CIC, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)	Heathrow Biodiversity Sites Heathrow

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3. Placemaking for Nature Award: Mixed Land Use and Ownership

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Urban Green Shoots - West Cornwall Cormac	Environmental Improvement Conservation Wildlife Project Savills	The White River Vision Mei Loci, Cornwall Council, Environment Agency, Pentewan Valley Council
Mansfield Sustainable Flood Resilience Scheme Severn Trent and Partners	Green Health Walk Sow the City CIC, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)

4. Biodiversity Feature Award: Nature Recovery

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Lower Chew Forest Avon Needs Trees	Kingsbrook Barratt Redrow	Eden Dock Canary Wharf Group
Urban Green Shoots - Cornwall Cormac	Bee the Change Garden Ground Control, Bumblebee Conservation Trust	Baltic Quarter Blue-Green Corridor JBA Consulting
Oakwood Nature Recovery Area: Canopy Garden Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust	Highways Verge Rewilding Project M Group Highways & Hampshire County Council	Glenfinnan Habitat Restoration Network Rail/Forestry and Land Scotland
Nature Links Southwood Foundation (TSF) and Sussex Golf Clubs	TramsPennine Express Station Biodiversity Enhancements TransPennine Express (TPE)	Gateway South Coventry Winvic Construction Limited
Opening up green space at Sand Martin House Peterborough City Council	The Bee's Paradise WBA Project, Municipality of Costabissara, Apiamoci Agricultural Company

5. Biodiversity Feature Award: Coastal Eco-engineering

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Avonmouth Severnside Strategic Enterprise Area ecology mitigation and flood defence project BAM-Mott Macdonald Joint Venture on behalf of client partnership	Old Colwyn Coastal Defence and Active Travel Scheme Conwy County Borough Council, Mott MacDonald, and Alun Griffiths	North Portsea Coastal Scheme: Phase 4 Coastal Partners, Portsmouth City Council, Mackley
Two Tree Island ExoTile revetment Exo Engineering, Southend City Council	Lower Otter Restoration Project Kier, Environment Agency, Clinton Devon Estates, Jacobs	Southsea Coastal Scheme Portsmouth City Council, Coastal Partners, Haskoning, VolkerSteven Ltd, Boskalis Westminster
The Rotterdam Reef Reefy, Rijkswaterstaat, municipality Rotterdam, Boskalis	Hengistbury Head Long Groyne Marine Enhancements South West Flood & Coastal (hostedby BCP Council) and VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and AtkinsRealis	Artecology CoCreate: Nature Inclusive Design - Production En Masse Artecology, ( The Common SPace CLG), Groundwork North East & Cumbria, Yorkshire Marine Partnership, and Partners

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6. Biodiversity Feature Award: Infrastructure Networks

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Highways Verge Rewilding Project M Group Highways & Hampshire County Council	Moray West Onshore Substation Siemens Energy, Huntly Falconry Centre, Whitehillock farm	Heathrow Biodiversity Sites Heathrow
East Airdrie Link Road AtkinsRealis	Network for Nature National Highways and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts	Eurasian Beaver Co-existence and Mitigation Network Rail

7. Biodiversity Feature Award: Water Management

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Chorley ARMStorm Installation ARM Ltd and United Utilities	Avonmouth Severnside Strategic Enterprise Area ecology mitigation and flood defence project BAM Mott Macdonald Joint Venture on behalf of client partnership	SuDS for Schools Blue Heart - East Sussex County Council, Defra, the Environment Agency, Department for Education and other partners
Baltic Quarter Blue-Green Corridor JBA Consulting	Mansfield Sustainable Flood Resilience Scheme Severn Trent and Partners	Upstream Thinking South West Water, Cornwall and Devon Wildlife Trusts, Westcountry Rivers Trust, and other Partners
NBS upstream on the Moat Brook Trent Rivers Trust	Sherbourne Valley Project Warwickshire Wildlife Trust	Conningbrook Wetland Redrow, Quinn Estate, Natural England, Water Environment Ltd, Water Design Engineers Ltd, Aspect Ecology

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8. Innovation for Nature Award

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Largescale Forest to Bog Peatland Restoration Balfour Beatty	The Round Hines and Lipton Rogers	Designing for nature: Swift brick Barratt Redrow, RSPB and Manthorpe
Eden Dock Canary Wharf Group	Indicator of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Warsaw Green Building Stanard Award City of Warsaw, Air Protection and Climate Policy Department	Saving our Upland Water Voles INCC, Cardiff University, National Resources Wales
AiDash MGroup Highways	Stronger Shores South Tyneside Council, Environment Agency, Newcastle University, North Sea Wildlife Trusts, Tees Rivers Trust, University of Plymouth, and The Wild Oysters Project	Bespoke Biosecutity Washdown Facilities South West Water, South West Lakes Trust, Tecker
Nature4Networks Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks - Distribution (Lead), GHD, Frontier Economics, ScottishPower Transmission

9. Biodiversity Champion Award: Early Career Professional
(Up to 5 years in biodiversity-related work)

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Munjeti Satyanarayana AtkinsRéalis	Kelly Strange Cormac	Georgia Sargent Galliford Try
Becky Hallsworth Mott MacDonald	Finley Wisdom Trustgreen

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10. Biodiversity Champion Award: Established Professional
(Over 5 years in biodiversity-related work)

Dr Larissa Naylor University of Glasgow	Lee Moat AtkinsRéalis	Helen Nyul Barratt Redrow
Lucy Sheffield Coastal Partners	Angus Smith Severn Trent	Kylie Jones SSEN Distribution
Gianfranco Caoduro WBA

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