BSG Ecology provides bat consultancy services to the Youth Hostel Association and National Trust on three important projects at Ilam in Derbyshire’s Peak District. They involved the conservation and refurbishment of Ilam Hall (2008-2010), St Bertram’s Bridge (2008) and Ilam Bunk House (2010-ongoing).
BSG Ecology was appointed by the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Croydon to carry out surveys of 29 schools as part of the Government’s ‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) programme.
Park Holidays UK was seeking to re-develop and improve many areas of the Park. However the coastal path, where it lies adjacent to the holiday park, forms an important route for greater horseshoe bats as they commute between their roost at Berry Head to the north east and their foraging grounds to the south of the Park.
BSG Ecology worked with Peter Brett Associates (PBA) on behalf of the Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to provide ecological advice regarding the demolition of 23 buildings prior to construction of a large scale residential development at Princess Marina Hospital in Northamptonshire.
E.ON Climate and Renewables proposes to build and operate an onshore wind farm at Loch Urr, near Moniaive, Dumfries & Galloway. Initial constraints mapping has concluded that the site has the capacity to support in excess of 50 turbines, as well as a substation and ancillary infrastructure.
Infinergy plans to build and operate a single wind turbine in flat, intensively farmed arable land at Botany Bay, near March, Cambridgeshire.
BSG Ecology was commissioned to survey a series of derelict farm buildings, known as Totterdown Farm Barns, for signs of bat activity. Our surveys identified a maternity roost of Natterer’s bat, and use of the barn and surrounding land by common and soprano pipistrelle bats. The proposed development would have resulted in damage to the bat roost.
BSG Ecology was invited to become part of the consultant team designing and promoting Ashton Park as a major urban extension to the south west of Bristol.
Following seven successful years operating from our office in the borders, we are very pleased to announce that we are relocating from Berwick upon Tweed to City Centre Newcastle. At the same time we are assessing options for the development of a presence further north, …
