Mitigation

eps will provide a practical mitigation, compensation and enhancement service from planning and feasibility to design and implementation.

Mitigation usually involves measures to reduce or minimise impacts within the site boundry. Practical solutions can include bird and bat boxes, invertibrate log piles, relaxed managment to provide foraging for bats and birds and sympathetic lighting schemes.

Translocation can be used when a species cannot be accomodated on the site, suitable nearby habitat will be identified and used as a receptor site for safe release of protected spieces such as newts and reptiles.

Habitat creation either within or beyond the site boundary can be used to offset the residual impacts a development may have on a site, eps have considerable experience in establishing meadows, ponds and woodland to compensate for lost habitat.