Case Studies

Our team is built according to our client's needs; we draw on a wide range of expertise to build a suitable team, but always maintaining a single point of contact within HalpinRobbins. This point of contact will usually be one of our founders or senior staff:

Gatton Road Landscape and Mitigation

HalpinRobbins were commissioned to provide an ecologically friendly landscape proposal and ecological mitigation plan for redevelopment of a site at Gatton Road, Bristol for Self storage units and sign-off of two planning conditions by Dainton Group Services.

The mitigation strategy required the provision of method statements for the protection of Great crested newts, Slow-worms and nesting birds and details of a scheme for the retention and enhancement of freshwater and terrestrial habitats suitable for Great crested newts and Slow-worms on site.

As part of the mitigation strategy and the enhancement scheme the plant species and locations were required to enhance the aesthetic value of the site as well as encouraging a wide variety of invertebrates, amphibian, reptiles and birds to make use of the site all year round.

After undertaking a review of previous ecological works and visiting the site to undertake a walk over appraisal to assess habitat connectivity and character of the site in terms of ecology, industrial use and existing landscape and visual amenity HalpinRobbins produced two reports; landscape strategy and ecological mitigation plan

Taking account of the existing scrub habitat of the site, adjacent railway and Great crested newt and Slow-worm populations within adjacent properties the reports proposed low disturbance and low maintenance mitigation measures combined with a United Kingdom native and naturalised planting scheme to limit ecological disturbance, enhance the sites ecology and ensure that the site could be used practically and profitably by the client.

Both planning conditions were signed off by the local planning authority and the development continued without hold-up.