Sectors
Residential development
Supporting your housing developments, from small-scale
projects to large garden villages.
When to Get Us Involved
You’ll need ecological input at various stages, including:
Land purchase
Getting an ecologist on board early, ideally before
purchasing land, can prevent investing time and money into projects that may
not be feasible.
Outline planning applications
Ensuring early ecological considerations to support your application.
Reserved matters applications
Providing the necessary surveys and mitigation plans.
Discharge of conditions
Helping you meet planning conditions efficiently.
Construction phase
Ensuring environmental and planning obligations are met during construction.
How Ethos supports your residential application
Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA)
Identifying key ecological constraints early.
Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA)
Ensuring your development complies with planning policy and wildlife legislation.
Design input
Liaising with landscape and drainage architects, attending design team meetings to ensure our ecological recommendations fit with the other disciplines.
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
Helping you achieve BNG requirements in
line with Defra’s metric and providing offsetting solutions if net gain isn’t possible onsite.
Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW)
Ensuring a smooth construction process without costly delays and meeting your planning obligations.
Protected species surveys
Bats, dormice, reptiles, great crested newts, and more.
Garden village in Hampshire
Ethos carried out a comprehensive suite of
Large-scale developments like this can avoid significant ecological impacts when ecologists are involved from the outset, as was the case here. Working closely with the landscape architect and wider design team, Ethos has identified key developable areas alongside spaces designated for green infrastructure and habitat enhancement. Further surveys are ongoing to refine the detailed development proposals in support of a planning application.
habitat and protected species surveys to assess the feasibility of a garden village in Hampshire.
Large-scale developments like this can avoid significant ecological impacts when ecologists are involved from the outset, as was the case here. Working closely with the landscape architect and wider design team, Ethos has identified key developable areas alongside spaces designated for green infrastructure and habitat enhancement. Further surveys are ongoing to refine the detailed development proposals in support of a planning application.
Why developers choose Ethos?
A dedicated and experienced team
Confident in making informed, on-the-spot decisions to keep projects moving safely and compliantly.
A highly experienced team
With all necessary protected species licences and
CIEEM accreditation.
Extensive expertise
Across all scales of residential development.
A strong reputation with Local Planning Authorities
helping to streamline the planning process.
Close collaboration with clients and design teams
To integrate ecology into project goals.
A dedicated Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) team
Providing offsetting solutions and brokering services where required.
Receive a detailed breakdown
for your project
We provide tailored solutions to help you deliver high-quality, sustainable green spaces. Contact us today to discuss your needs. Whether you require:
Biodiversity net gain
Policy advice
Full strategy
Ecological assessments.
