Mountpark Woodland - St Peters Wood, Swadlincote Background Mountpark, recognising the increasing focus of government policy on the environment, wanted to develop a project that would serve as a real-life case study. They aimed to provide independent and real-time learning outcomes to inform their own future projects and other partners. Guided by the expert team at Nicholsons, the Mountpark board explored opportunities and Read more »

Achieving planning consent for a broad scheme in Oxford Site: Court Place Gardens, Iffley Client: Oxford University Development Ltd Overview Nicholsons provided ecological support to a new 71 home residential development in Iffley, Oxford, replacing 36 existing properties used as student accommodation. Key constraints on the site were roosting bats, including a pipistrelle maternity roost and several day roosts, an Read more »

Rockingham Forest Park Nicholsons were delighted to assist with the development of a new holiday park close to the old RAF Kings Cliffe site in Northamptonshire. This development involved the skills from our ecology, arboriculture, and landscape teams with a brief to provide a luxury holiday experience well connected to nature and the local landscape. The development site itself was Read more »

Primary School Extensions - Great Crested Newt Surveys Nicholsons (formerly Lockhart Garratt) were instructed by the county council in relation to a number of extensions to primary schools across the county in 2015. As part of this instruction habitat and protected species surveys were required to assess the impacts of the proposed extensions, most notably in relation to bats and Great Crested Read more »

Bradgate Park- bat conservation in ancient parkland trees Bradgate Park offers 335 ha (830 acres) of publicly accessible countryside just a few miles north west of Leicester city centre and is popular with cyclists, dog walkers and ramblers. First enclosed as a deer park around 800 years ago, the landscape is wild and rugged, dotted with rocky outcrops and Read more »