Welcome to
The Re-Generation
Why Chrysalis?
Our Intention
To regenerate underutilised and degraded land by enhancing its ecology, meeting local social and development needs, with local partners, and producing a strong economic return.
What’s different about our approach?
Under-utilised land is often overlooked, yet is readily available.These sites offer multiple potentials, ‘low’ baseline for nature- based solutions and development.
Why now?
The degraded state of nature overall - aligned with BNG and UK Net Zero obligations.
Investment at scale is becoming available for nature-based solutions.
Coupled with increasing investor confidence - evolving market maturity for Biodiversity units and CO2e.
Opportunity to apply regenerative mindset to realise the full potential and breadth earth impacts vs narrow carbon or BNG only focus.
Our focus is on the following 3 pillars
Under-utilised Land
low base / high potential
Assess degraded land and establish a clear baseline for regenerative improvement
Regenerative Thinking
multiplier effect
Use regenerative design to implement improvements and reverse the ecological spiral
Dashboard Reporting
clear / transparent
Transform land and deliver a perpetual
economic and regenerative return
The current UK landscape provides a compelling market environment for Chrysalis to accelerate earth impact benefits.
Underutilised Land - can be improved from a low base – low value/seen as liability provides opportunity. Secured through known parties through partnerships and acquisitions.
Brownfield - a New Asset class emerging in strategic land market.
Established ESG Land – market competition is increasing land price for “protected” or already “enhanced” land with narrower margin for future improvements.
Market – fragmented but rapidly changing, opportunity to be at the forefront. Real estate sector slow to respond and have challenged new targets.
Built environment – main politics parties both support 200 – 300k new homes p.a. opportunity to balance the environment built environment to enable support from government, local authorities, communities, Investors & developers.
Experience – market is mature to deal with all kinds of land and challenges from title, environmental issues and tenure. We can bring all this together.
Reporting – evolving as companies and industry adopt different metrics or are developing different metrics in different sectors eg Future Homes task force.
The Market
Our aim is to continue to be at the forefront
and an influencer in these emerging markets.
• Increased market activity
driven by ESG corporate and
legal requirements
• Revenues driven through BNG
and flood management
• Demand for greater reporting
transparency and avoiding
greenwashing
• Market competition increasing
for greenfield land
• Regulatory and investor pressure
on offsetting impact on real
estate developments
• Opportunity to diversify revenues
across asset e.g. Social benefits
Voluntary nature-based
carbon markets
• Woodland Carbon Code
• Peatland Code
• Hedgerow Carbon Code
• UK Saltmarsh Code
• Farm Soil Carbon Code
Compliance nature-based markets
• Biodiversity Net Gain
• Nutrient credits
• S106 planning requirements
– NN/BNG
• Phosphate and Nitrate
pollution prevention credits
(LPA requirement)
Voluntary water and flood risk markets
• Phosphate credits
• Wetland, arable reversion
and cover crops
Emerging markets
• Green social prescribing
• ESG indicators
Emerging markets
• 219 Projects
• 177 Place-based or Sub-regional
Projects
• 42 ‘Enabler’ Projects (national or
regional bodies)
• 16% of Projects reported relate
to Urban Habitats (no statistics
on brownfield sites)
Voluntary nature-based
carbon markets
In total, as of 31 March 2023, 24,344ha of woodlands have been validated and verified under the Woodland Carbon
Code, according to interim data from the WCC, up from 18,500 a year earlier.
Source: Forest Research
Our Approach
Reversing the ‘Degenerative’ spiral
Our regenerative approach considers all characteristics of the land and surroundings to realise the maximum potential of the site.
Our goal is to intervene in the early stages of the under-utilised land and accelerate improvements and benefits through investment, the return on investment is then
measured from a financial, social and environmental perspective.
We can demonstrate clear direct benefits and improvements which can then be used to support external companies’ targets, balance any built environment on or off site or in return for financial contributions.
Regenerative Reporting
The Chrysalis Dashboard
Each element of our reporting supports and reinforces the other, achieving multiple benefits, enabling the potential of each asset
to be realised.
Our regenerative reporting covers each characteristic as follows:
BASE initial measured assessment of the site
CURRENT annual assessment and current position
TARGET the initial target for improvement
SUMMARY an overall indicator as to how each site is performing
Asset Case Study
The Regeneration Team
Our team has a blend of experience and skills in the environmental, built environment and corporate environments.
Accelerated transition towards regenerative futures.
Global mindset towards investing and developing real estate.
Large investment portfolio management.
Experience in managing sourcing and transaction of land assets.
Ajay Arora is an investment Manager
with experience
in Real Estate and Banking in UK and Australia.
Simon Bailey leads
LSP Leadership, who are about building confidence,
courage and conviction in leaders to take action.
Kevin Moriarty has over
30 years’ real estate
experience managing
large scale investments in senior leadership positions across Europe.
Nathan Nelson has over 25 years of experience in helping organisations
communicate, collaborate and deliver their projects effectively.
Rob Draper is experienced in transactions involving strategic land
throughout the UK.
Contact Chrysalis
All enquiries from prospective
investors should be directed to:
