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Great Crested Newt Surveys,

Licensing & Mitigation

Great Crested Newt Habitat Suitability Assessment / HSI

Habitat Suitability Assessment

If a development is assessed as having the potential to adversely impact great crested newt (GCN) via terrestrial or aquatic habitat, further surveys are typically recommended.

 

In the first instance, a GCN Habitat Suitability Assessment is undertaken at waterbodies on and within a certain radius of a site (usually a 250m or 500m radius) using the Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) technique. This determines if a waterbody is assessed as having the potential to support GCN.

We try to include this Assessment at our Preliminary Ecological Appraisal stage to reduce overall costs for our Clients.

Timing: All year round.​

Great Crested Newt eDNA surveys, trapping, netting, egg searches & torching.

Phase 2 Surveys

If the Habitat Suitability Assessment confirms that a particular waterbody has the potential to support GCN, further surveys are undertaken using the environmental DNA (eDNA) method or by trapping, netting, egg searches and torching methodology.

Timing: eDNA: 15th April to 30th June.  Other methods: Mid-March to Mid-June. 

Great Crested Newt (GCN) licensing, mitigation & monitoring.

Licensing & Mitigation 

We provide a full European Protected Species Mitigation Licensing (EPSML) service, including District Licensing.

Dru Hall is Low Impact Class Licensed for GCN for small projects, which keeps costs down.

We also provide a mitigation package tailored to each site such as receptor site preparation, exclusion fencing, trapping and translocation, and monitoring.

What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Registered Office:  Nelson House, 13 Mundesley Road, North Walsham, Norfolk NR28 0DA 

Company Registration No. 08188908  

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