[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 Sefton Park is an example of an early municipal park, and covers approximately 95 hectares. It is designated by Historic England as Grade I Parkland in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Created in the 19th century on...

25 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 Forty Hall and Estate in the London Borough of Enfield, includes the Grade I-listed Forty Hall and its associated Grade II-registered landscape. This historic designed landscape contains the preserved remains of the former Tudor royal palace of Elsyng,...

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 During a routine inspection Northumbrian Water Operations found that a landslip had seriously damaged part of the surface water network on the southern edge of Peterlee, County Durham.  As a result the surface water sewer outfall that discharges...

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 Renovation works at Piece Hall are currently underway as part of the Piece Hall Transformation Project, which includes internal and external repair works and the construction of an extension to its eastern boundary. The project required ecological surveys...

19 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 Our Newcastle team have been working with Northumberland Water Ltd (NWL) at Kielder Reservoir, to understand the location’s importance to bats. We are now helping NWL to make long term decisions about  how best to take account of...

19 July, 2018