Mycelia for Local Authorities

A software tool for LPAs to drive better environmental outcomes in less time

“Mycelia is brilliant, we love the software. We really appreciate the simplicity and user friendliness of the tool.”

Simone Turner

Ecology Officer, Hammersmith & Fulham Council

“Everyone in the planning community needs to realise how difficult it would be to do all the validation and assessment work without Mycelia, and the hours and days saved by the software.”

Lisa Malter

Ecologist, Eastleigh Borough Council

“If I ever leave Doncaster, I won’t go to a council that doesn’t have Mycelia.”

Helen Markland

Principal Ecologist, Doncaster Council

“Mycelia allows me to review Metrics more quickly – for example 30 minutes instead of 2.5 hours for a relatively straightforward Metric.”

Danielle Berry

Biodiversity and Countryside Officer, Cotswold District Council

“Mycelia has made it so easy to track habitats and pick out those bits in the Metric that are not quite right.”

Carolyn Herbert

Ecology Officer, Isle of Wight Council

“Mycelia works so well that I was able to look through a BNG Metric live in a pre-app meeting – this is something I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise, and helped us move forward quickly there and then, avoiding potentially time-consuming follow-ons.”

Des Hobson

Principal Ecological Consultant

“Mycelia makes it much quicker to review the BNG Metric. It’s also great that I can use the automatic error checks in my responses.”

Elizabeth Burrows

Senior Ecologist, Wiltshire Council

“Mycelia brilliantly summarises the ecological problems I would have raised without the software, but it does it A LOT quicker. I love it!”

Sarah Boyd

Ecologist, Eastleigh Borough Council

Mycelia helps over 100 Local Planning Authorities manage ecology and BNG

Mycelia is tailor-made to support local government teams with ecology, including every aspect of Biodiversity Net Gain – from validation and assessment, to monitoring and reporting.

Mycelia helps ecologists, planners, and validation officers to:

Save time

Drive better environmental outcomes

Catch and manage risks

Generate value-for-money

Mycelia helps solve the new challenges of ecology and BNG

Ecological monitoring and reporting

The Environment Act 2021 requires you to monitor new things in new ways.

Getting this right requires ecological science.

Mycelia understands this, with a built-in BNG engine to automate analysis and reporting.

Validation and determination

Planning and validation teams have new responsibilities to assess ecological data.

Mycelia speeds this up with automatic checks and easy tools.

Whatever is coming next

The implications of ecology for Local Authorities are growing – flowing from Nature Recovery Strategies, Urban Greening, the Biodiversity Duty, and more.

Mycelia constantly evolves to provide more and wider support.

Mycelia helps grasp the new opportunities of ecology and BNG

Better local environments

Enhancing nature can benefit people and communities – improving health, well-being, carbon reduction, and climate and flood resilience.

Mycelia catches risks and issues, to help ensure proposals are feasible and maximise benefits.

Revenue and resources for councils

BNG implementation carries costs, but councils can cover these through monitoring fees and pre-app charges, and even generate surpluses from habitat banking.

Mycelia makes ecological tasks faster and easier, enabling you to put BNG income towards expanding teams and improving services.