Category: Ecology

Redevelopment of Northampton University Campus to Provide 140 New Homes

Following the University of Northampton’s move to its new town-centre Waterside Campus in summer 2018, the Avenue Campus site was …

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How To Stop Worrying and Start To Love Living With Bats

Finding a bat roost during works is most developers’ worst nightmare, which is what a client thought when they stumbled …

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A Tale of Two Badger Setts

On a large agricultural site in South Yorkshire, TEP’s ecologists have been busy developing a flexible mitigation strategy, to help …

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BNG – What’s it all about?

Following the 2019 publication of DEFRA’s objectives for a mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) policy in England, Natural England recently …

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River Assessments and BNG For Sustainable Development

The UK’s rivers have been in the news recently, often for all the wrong reasons. Communities have experienced significant river …

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Planning Consent for Self-build Homes in the Isles of Scilly

TEP is delighted that the Council of Isles of Scilly (CIOS), has granted planning permission for 12 affordable, detached and …

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Log Lounging Lizards

At a site near the Trent Valley in North Lincolnshire, where wind-blown sand deposits from the end of the last …

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What the Expansion of District Level Licensing Means for Developers

Natural England is rapidly expanding the areas where District Level Licencing (DLL) can be used if Great Crested Newts (GCN) …

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Leighton Plans Approved

Two plans totalling 1,250 homes in the Leighton area of the town have been approved by Cheshire East Council and …

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Ecology Selection Day 2021

Every year TEP is proud to help people take their first steps or to continue with their career as an …

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Licence to Protect

Fantastic news as TEP’s Lizi Pimlott receives her protected species licence for barn owls. Lizi has joined a very exclusive …

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The Early Bird and The Pink-footed Geese

It is late August and the pink-footed goose autumn migration has started with skeins being seen over the North West …

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