Habitats & Botany | Habitat Management Plans
Habitat management plans provide guidance and instruction that allows landowners to maintain or enhance levels of biodiversity of all habitats on site over a sustained period of time. This includes both newly created as well as retained habitats. When associated with development, habitat management plans are often required as a planning condition or as part of a protected species licence.
At Peak Ecology we have considerable experience in preparing management plans. We have prepared management plans for a wide range of habitats, such as grasslands, woodlands and wetland habitats, including those of private ownership and those within nature reserves and statutory protected sites.
Management plans typically consist of:
- Detailed site description and evaluation;
- Mapping of habitats, management compartments etc;
- Discussion of management issues;
- Management aims and objectives;
- Prescriptions or actions; and
- Work programme with timetable.
Management plans are typically prepared for a five-year period, then reviewed and updated. However, shorter and more commonly longer plans, are provided as appropriate. Management plans are also included within several planning documents such as Landscape Ecological Management Plans (LEMPs) and Contruction Environmental Management Plans (CEMPs), BREEAM assessments and Biodiversity Impact Assessments (BIAs).
Peak Ecology can also organise contractors to carry out the management works and oversee the practical process. We are experienced in the habitat translocation and have translocated small populations of orchid species as well as sections of species-rich grassland.
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