biT's team of award winning ecologists are able to design cost effective mitigation strategies to ensure the effective and timely discharge of planning conditions including:

• The design of mitigation strategies and site management plans
• The design of habitat/species monitoring and surveillance programs
• Providing ecological clerk of works duties during species translocations and habitat creation/restoration works

Bat Surveys

• Preliminary Roost Assessments of built structures and trees
• Dusk emergence and pre-dawn return surveys at potential and known roosts
• Static/Automated Activity Surveys
• Transect Activity Surveys

Amphibian and Reptile Surveys

• Great Crested Newt Habitat Suitability Assessments
• Great Crested Newt eDNA survey
• Great Crested Newt – Presence/absence surveys
• Great Crested Newt – Population class assessments
• Great Crested Newt Strategic Licencing
• Species Translocation and long term monitoring
• Reptile presence and absence surveys
• Reptile species translocation and monitoring

Badger, Water Vole, Otter and Dormouse Surveys

• Presence/Absence Surveys
• Water vole habitat and activity mapping
• Badger Bait Marking
• Dormouse nest tube/box surveys

Bird Surveys

• Nesting Bird Checks as part of Ecological Clerk of Works

For more information please contact our team at ecology@bit-group.co.uk or call us on 01952 380 039