Category Archives: Mitigations

Meadow Assessment – Llanharan

An assessment of the ecological value of old meadows prior to preparing a bid to include the site in the Local Development Plan highlighted potential difficulties with development.

Ecological Survey Calendar

Nature doesn’t work to our timetables, but local authority ecologists will expect that surveys will have been conducted at the optimum time for the subject species.

Achieving Biodiversity Net Gain

Photo: Local Government Association – Development projects will be mandated to include at least 10% improvement in biodiversity by 2023. The UK government has committed itself to reversing the loss in biodiversity across the country by 2030 and has made provision in its “flagship” Environment Act 2021 for ensuring that each future development project deliversContinueContinue reading “Achieving Biodiversity Net Gain”

Road versus Bats

Plans to install a dual-carriageway ring road near Norwich could decimate habitats supporting a large colony of extremely rare bats. Are mitigation measures or is re-routing the solution?

Science Park Solar Power

A significant amount of our work on this project was investigating whether badgers from the local nature reserve were making use of the proposed site.

Great-crested Newt Licence

This newt is the most highly protected amphibian in Britain and the most secretive in its habits. Licensed ecologists must employ a range of survey techniques to confirm its presence or absence.

UK Environment Act 2021

The Environment Act 2021 provides umbrella coverage for a range of supporting legislation within each of UK’s nations.

The Age of Nature

If they are to avoid “bad press”, architects, planners, developers and builders will need to increase provision for our natural world in their projects, whether large or small.

Riverside Tree Corridors

Can farmers and landowners be persuaded that the loss of a narrow strip of riverbank, populated by trees, will provide a win-win position for all concerned?