Development and Planning

Whether you are looking to build a house, convert your barn to a holiday home, or are a developer looking to provide infrastructure or housing for the wider community, chances are you are going to need expert advice from an ecological consultant at some stage of the process. Thinking early on about the ecological component of your development will help you to schedule your work and many potential issues can be circumnavigated before they even arise.

Most of the services we provide are regular components of a planning or development process, such as Preliminary Ecological Appraisals/Extended Phase 1 Surveys for green sites or bat surveys for existing buildings. Your local planning authority can advise you as to what type of survey it is that you need and we can provide a timely, professional report with expert advice on the ecology of your site. We also have extensive experience with mitigation projects, ecological clerks of work and translocations.

If you know what service you need please feel free to find out more about how we can help you in the species or other services sections of this website. Should you be at the initial stage of your project and not quite certain what service you need, simply email or give us a call and we will help you find out what the appropriate survey effort for your project is.

How we can help:

Preliminary Ecological Appraisals/Extended Phase 1 surveys
BREEAM 2018 surveys
Bat surveys
Barn Owl surveys
Surveys for all protected species
Mitigation plans
Protected Species Licence Applications
Working Method Statements
Ecological Clerks of Work
Environmental Impact Assessment
Construction Ecological Management Plans (CEMP)
Landscape and Ecological Management Plans (LEMP)
Biodiversity Enhancement Plans (BEP) etc.

Planning for bat access in wooden building

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We are recruiting! An advert for an ecologist is out on cieem.net, as well as environmentjob.co.uk If you're interested, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

We are an ecological consultancy based in South Wales, which provides a wide range of ecological surveys and services with respect to British mammals and other protected species. We regularly carry out bat surveys, preliminary ecological appraisals, reptile surveys and great crested newt surveys, so we do a lot more than just mammals! As mammal specialists, we also regularly carry out badger surveys, otter surveys and we also provide water vole surveys. Whether you need a white-clawed crayfish survey, ecological input into an Environmental Impact Assessment or any other type of ecological work, we are here to help.

As a small but well resourced and staffed company we can cover all of South Wales, mid- and West Wales and the South West of England. We carry out bat surveys in Cardiff, preliminary ecological appraisals in Newport, otter surveys in Brecon, great crested newt surveys in Herefordshire and many more. Our expertise stretches to everything involved in the planning process, whether it is a bat survey for a barn conversion or a phase 1 habitat survey/preliminary ecological appraisal for a new plot. We also provide ecological management plans, method statements and of course we do bat or any other protected species licence, should you require one as part of your project.