Welcome and thank you for your interest. With the return of many summer breeding birds, the ecological survey season is picking up pace. We have been observing passage Ospreys near Cheltenham and are busy with other surveys across the UK. Get in touch if you have any questions or require advice.
Tel: +44 (0)1242 525 222
Ecosystem Services & Green Infrastructure
The Brecon Beacons National Park is preparing a new Landscape Character Assessment to help it perform its duties as a National Park Authority.
The Park was established in 1957, under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949. It coincides with nine unitary authorities and covers 520 square miles.
The aim of the Brecon Beacons NPA is to achieve widespread understanding and support for the National Park as a protected landscape, which will be recognised as a valued local, national and international asset.
The vision of the NPA is that the Park’s landscape is managed sustainably with widespread appreciation of its special qualities and where local communities benefit from its designation.
Lepus is working as part of a team of landscape and ecological professionals to appraise the prevailing ecosystem service functionality at a landscape ecology in the Park. Existing and planned green infrastructure will be reviewed to explore the role it plays in helping to maximise ecosystem functionality that delivers sustainable development now and in the future.
BREEAM Ecological Appraisal
Lepus have been instructed by a private developer to undertake an ecological appraisal and Phase 1 extended habitat survey at an inner city site in London’s trendy Shoreditch district.
Out inputs have been incorporated at the design stage to ensure sound ecological planning throughout the project’s lifetime. The impact assessment will be followed by any appropriate mitigation. Subsequently ecological features will be carefully incorporated into the final scheme design. All ecological management has been prepared in accordance with the IEEM ecological impact assessment guidelines.
Habitats Regulations Assessment
The borough of Havant is situated on the south coast of England. It lies within close proximity to several high profile coastal and inland European Sites of Nature Conservation Importance including fifteen Ramsar, SACs, and SPAs. The HRA (Habitats Regulations Assessment) aims to assess the potential impacts on these designated sites from Havant’s Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD) and to ensure that there are no likely significant adverse effects upon the features of ecological importance.