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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Background BSG Ecology provided baseline survey and ecological impact assessment (EcIA) services for this large residential development in Peterborough that was granted planning permission in 2013. During the scoping stage of the EcIA, the potential for two species of butterfly,...

01 August, 2018

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Background Ashridge Estate, which is owned and managed by the National Trust, covers 2,000 hectares of beech and oak woodland, commons and chalk downland nestled in the Chilterns Hills, Hertfordshire. Across the Estate are ponds of varying sizes, many...

01 August, 2018

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Background BSG Ecology has been working on proposals for the Great Haddon urban extension on the southern edge of Peterborough for over eight years. Peterborough City Council granted outline planning permission for this significant development in 2013 and construction...

01 August, 2018

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Background The former sand quarry site is located within the Fenland of Cambridgeshire. Aggregate extraction ceased across the site several decades ago and it is still owned by a leading aggregate manufacturing company. In recent years the site has...

27 July, 2018

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ipswich Borough Council recently secured Stage 2 Heritage Lottery Funding to restore Holywells Park. BSG Ecology provided specialist ecological advice to the heritage design team. Background Holywells Park is a designated Conservation Area, and on the English Heritage register of...

20 July, 2018

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Background In 2015 BSG Ecology was commissioned by O&H Hampton Ltd to carry out ecological monitoring of great crested newt use of tunnels.  The aim was to determine the success of mitigation relating to the recently-constructed Western Peripheral Road,...

20 July, 2018