This blog summarises what you need to know about badger mitigation when planning a land development project. They're common across the UK and your planning application depends on abiding by the law.
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Green space and urban corridors. You’d be forgiven for assuming this only concerns large parks and woodlands. Granted, they’re important green space examples, but so is that small meadow on your housing estate, or the verge down by the canal towpath. Large and small, it’s all green space, and it helps our planet in ways that concern you.
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If you’re a land or housing developer, it can be frustrating to find bats roosting on your site, or within buildings you plan to develop. With all eighteen bat species known in the UK, they’re legally protected. You mustn’t kill, injure, or disturb them, or their empty roosts. So, what do you do? Let us explain.
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The UK is home to three species of newt: smooth, palmate and great crested. As a protected species, planning authorities may require surveys for great crested newts. And it's a tight window from March to June. Should you miss it, you risk delaying your planning application by a year. This post explains what you need to know.
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Created in 1985, it’s one of many long words that ecologists love. But what does it actually mean? And why does it matter in the context of land development?
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If you’re looking to develop a piece of land, you’ll have to undertake some ecological surveys. Are you asking: “Which ones?”
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Read how Shropshire Wildlife Trust are working to clean the Serpentine at Trenchwood Gardens, Telford.
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