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Environmental Impact
Assessment |
Working with data obtained from desktop
searches and site surveys, Peak Ecology Limited
are able to provide:
- Advice on legal compliance, planning
matters and licensing.
- Evaluation and impact assessment for EIA,
including representation at public
inquiries.
- Advice on the drafting of planning
conditions and Section 106 agreements.
- Particular expertise in the assessment
of urban brownfield sites and of freshwater
habitats, including rivers, streams, canals
and ponds.
For further information about this, or any
other aspect of our work, please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Ecological survey and assessment |
In addition to their own diverse skills
base, the Directors work regularly with a wide
network of professional associates, who are
often national or regional authorities in their
chosen field. Thus, Peak Ecology Limited are
able to offer the complete range of ecological
surveys.
- Desktop searches for information on
statutory and non-statutory designated
sites, legally protected species and
Biodiversity Action Plan species.
- Site scoping, and identification of
constraints, potential issues, and further
survey requirements.
- Survey and assessment of habitats and
botany, including extended Phase 1 habitats
survey, River Corridor Survey and more
detailed botanical assessments.
- Protected species surveys, including:
badgers, riparian mammals i.e. otters and
water voles, dormice, bats, reptiles and
amphibians (including great crested newts),
and freshwater crayfish.
- Survey of breeding and wintering birds,
and identification of site constraints posed
by nesting birds.
Survey and assessment of terrestrial and
freshwater invertebrate biodiversity, and of
biological water quality.
For further information about this, or any
other aspect of our work, please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Mitigation and compensation |
We are able to offer the tangible benefit of
experience when designing and implementing
safeguard and mitigation measures and
compensation schemes, and can advise on, for
example:
- The erection of safeguard and exclusion
fencing for reptiles, great crested newts,
water voles, badgers, nesting birds and
other important site features.
- The design and implementation of
protected species rescue and translocation
schemes, often under licence from English
Nature or Defra.
- Specifying and implementing habitat
translocation works.
- Carrying out engineering operations near
main rivers and protected sites.
- The eradication or control of invasive
species such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed,
signal
crayfish and American mink.
- The preparation and implementation of
environmental management plans.
- The design and construction of
sustainable drainage systems.
We are also in a position to offer ecological
site supervision and clerks of works.
For further information about this, or any other
aspect of our work, please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Habitat enhancement and
management |
Peak Ecology can advise on the enhancement or
restoration of habitats or species, on habitat
creation and species re-introductions, and on
the management of trees. We can prepare site
management plans, restoration schemes and
monitoring programmes for habitats, species and
water quality.In this regard, we can help to
achieve the successful discharge of planning
conditions and the fulfilment of Section 106 and
other planning obligations.
We can also advise on positive ecological
design features for incorporation into new
developments, and can help with EcoHomes, BREEAM
and other sustainability assessments.
For further information about this, or any
other aspect of our work, please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Expert Witness and
advice |
We are experienced in advising on legal
compliance, planning matters and licensing
issues. We can also deliver expert ecological
input, on your behalf, at public inquiries.For further information about this, or any other aspect of our work,
please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Strategic planning and
research |
We are able to utilise our skills and experience
in strategic and policy work to offer advice on
nature conservation planning and biodiversity
action planning to local and regional
authorities, public bodies, blue chip
corporations and others. We have a particular
interest in landscape ecology and in ecological
network plans.
For further information about this, or any
other aspect of our work, please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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Training |
Peak Ecology Limited are experienced ecological
trainers, and carry out professional training on
behalf of the Peak National Park and for the
Institute of Ecology and Environmental
Management. Our IEEM courses encompass the
assessment of brownfield sites, the
interpretation of biological water quality data,
and on ecological impact assessment. In the past
training courses on crayfish have been designed
and delivered to Environment Agency and British
Waterways staff.We are always very
enthusiastic to talk to companies about their
bespoke requirements for environmental training.
For further information
about this, or any other aspect of our work,
please contact us on
enquiries@peakecology.co.uk
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