ABOUT US
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OUR EXPERTISE
Lepus provides professional, best value environmental consulting services for sustainable development from our offices in Cheltenham.
Our client base is distributed across public and private sector clients. This includes central government, national park authorities, local planning authorities, renewable energy sector, residential and transport sector clients.
Our approach to each project is customised to the client’s requirements. As a client, you can expect director level appreciation and appraisal of the project. The team will deliver the project under director leadership. We are a listening consultancy.
All of our staff are professionally trained in environmental planning to masters level. They are all members of various professional institutes including CIEEM, IEMA and the RTPI. Our team is able to draw on a rich variety of project and programme experience.
If you require advice on your planning application affecting ecology, biodiversity, or landscape then please get in touch via enquiries@lepusconsulting.com.
If you are currently preparing a Neighbourhood Development Plan or Development Plan Document, or other document for which an SEA may be required, we provide planning and strategic environmental assessment support and would be more than happy to discuss your requirements.
OUR TEAM
All of our staff are professionally trained in environmental assessment and planning. Our team is able to draw on a rich variety of project and programme experience.
Neil Davidson
BSc (Hons) MSc CEnv MCIEEM CMLI
DIRECTOR
Neil is a founder of Lepus Consulting and a landscape ecologist with 20 years' experience, applying the principles of landscape level planning to help shape land use plans and programmes to maximise sustainable development performance.
Neil has worked in local and central government for 10 years, providing ecological, green infrastructure, recreational and landscape management and protection advice, he also served as a policy advisor.
Neil is one of the UK’s leading strategic environmental planning experts and set up Lepus, in part, to support local planning authorities in the preparation of their local plans. He regularly appears at Examination in Public and has an invaluable in-depth knowledge of plan making. Neil specialises in the Strategic Environmental Assessment, green infrastructure planning and Habitats Regulations Assessment of plans and programmes.
Neil is passionate about landscape ecology and the opportunities to optimise ecosystem services through appropriate land use configuration; he is fascinated by butterfly metapopulation dynamics in calcareous landscapes.
Samantha Cheater BSc (Hons) MSc CEnv MCIEEM
PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT
Emily Hannis
MA (Hons)
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT
