Rockingham Forest Park Nicholsons (formerly Lockhart Garratt) were engaged to undertake the environmental planning work for the creation of a holiday park, known as Rockingham Forest Park, for a client back in 2014. The site is an old quarry site and former airfield with a historical railway line running through it and has lots of ecological and historical interest being 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 »