Environmental & Ecology

Local planning is required to ensure that development is not to the detriment of threatened species, habitat and environment.

The recent Code for Sustainable Homes ensures that local planning evaluates the impact on the ecological environment.

Our services include, but are not limited to:

• EcIA reports in relation to development sites and mitigation strategies
• Habitat creation design and planning
• Landscape character assessments
• Phase 1 habitat surveys
• Phase 2 habitat surveys and NVC surveys
• River habitat and corridor surveys
• Bat surveys and monitoring
• Reptile and Amphibian surveys and monitoring
• Insect/Coleoptera surveys and monitoring
• Woodland ecology assessments & deer management plans and surveys

Our consultants have a range of current research interests including infrastructure requirements for the delivery of renewable energies and the relations of thermodynamic laws to ecosystems.