Our habitat creation work supports protected species licensing requirements, planning conditions, and dedicated conservation projects. This includes the design and creation of habitats such as great crested newt ponds, badger setts, otter holts, and dormouse habitat improvements, as well as the installation of exclusion fencing for species including great crested newts, water voles, and badgers.

The mitigation schemes we deliver typically combine several services, including vegetation management and/or clearance, installation of exclusion fencing, and the creation of species-specific habitats such as ponds, hibernacula, refugia, and foraging habitat.

We have extensive experience delivering wetland projects, including wetland design and construction, attenuation wetland creation, and SuDS scheme delivery. This work includes the installation of ponds, swales, headwalls, and water control structures to support both biodiversity and sustainable water management.

Maintaining the biodiversity value of many habitats often requires careful and ongoing management. We provide practical habitat restoration services designed to enhance and protect ecological value across a range of environments.

Our wetland restoration work includes reedbed opening and translocation, sediment removal, waterbody re-profiling, and ditch management to improve habitat quality and hydrological function. We deliver river restoration projects using techniques such as Natural Flood Management (NFM), channel re-meandering, soft bank protection, channel diversification, and the creation of side ponds to support wildlife and improve river processes.

In woodland habitats, we carry out management and restoration through practices such as coppicing, thinning, underplanting, soil translocation, and the removal of invasive species, helping to improve structure, diversity, and long-term resilience.

We deliver moorland restoration projects using Natural Flood Management (NFM) techniques to slow water flow and enhance biodiversity. This includes strategic tree planting and woodland creation, sphagnum planting, and the installation of leaky dams and bunds to retain water within the landscape. These nature-based solutions help reduce downstream flood risk while restoring valuable habitats.

Our experienced ecologists and environmental contractors use management techniques tailored to the specific habitats and target species within each project. Wherever possible, these approaches are designed not only to achieve the primary ecological objectives, but also to provide wider benefits and help maximise overall biodiversity value.

We undertake ongoing habitat management across a wide range of sites, including previously implemented mitigation schemes, solar developments, and nature reserves. Our work includes vegetation management, grassland enhancement, fencing installation and repair, and footpath construction, along with associated groundworks to support long-term site management.

Where appropriate, we apply a combination of traditional and modern conservation techniques. These include soil and turf translocation, hedgerow and small tree translocation, hedge cutting, laying and planting, dead hedging, and woodland management practices such as coppicing and pollarding.

Our team has extensive experience in the management of ditches, water courses and wetlands and routinely undertake sensitive methods of dredging, sediment removal and reedbed management to prevent natural successional processes from reducing biodiversity value.