Case Studies

How do you re-home a European protected species for a couple of years until essential works on the Chasewater Dam are completed and the reservoir has had time to refill to its normal water levels to allow the plant to be returned?…

Located on the north side of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, this 2.6ha disused landfill site was identified on the District’s Local Plan as an area of open space with the potential to be a major asset to the town…

Chasewater Heaths Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is a local Country Park, serving large parts of Staffordshire and the West Midlands. It contains a c.100ha reservoir, which feeds the local canal network, as far as Birmingham, parts of which are also designated SSSI and Special Area of Conservation (SAC)…

RWE npower has proposed the construction of a new gas-fired power station on the site of a former coal-fired station at Willington in Derbyshire. This requires a 30km gas pipeline linking the new station with the gas National Transmission System (NTS) at Yoxall in Staffordshire…

National Trust, Holnicote Estate, Somerset

The social, economic and environmental costs of flooding are significant and increasing. With this in mind, the Defra Multi-Objective Flood Management Demonstration Project hopes to provide robust catchment scale evidence of the influence of land management change on flood risk…

The Environment Agency (Northwest)
Penny Anderson Associates Ltd was commissioned by the Environment Agency to carry out a survey of habitats along the River Weaver in Cheshire between Nantwich and Runcorn, in order to determine the suitability of the river corridor and adjacent land for otters…

Guidance was prepared for the Welsh Assembly Government to help local authorities in Wales deal with protected and biodiversity species in planning proposals…

The danger of damage to soils of conservation value and archaeology during heathland restoration