Keystone Ecology
Keystone Habitats
Keystone – making ecology our business
Keystone Marine
Our marine ecological consultancy services include seabed, intertidal and sub-tidal surveys, seabed sampling, biotope surveys and mapping, marine mammal and bird surveys, plankton, fish and benthic surveys, GIS Mapping, Ecological Impact Assessment and the design and implementation of Mitigation, Monitoring and Management Plans.
Ecology Surveys for Wind Turbine Planning Application
The Resilience Centre
The Keystone Ecology renewables team were asked to scope and carry out ecology surveys to accompany a planning application for a single wind turbine development in Gloucestershire. We commenced with a combined Phase I Habitat and bat activity survey (transect and automated) before carrying out a bird reconnaissance survey, which involved combined Vantage Point and walkover survey methods.
Throughout the project we worked closely with the client to secure Natural England approval of survey effort and standard to ensure no objection would be raised at planning.