Baker Consultants Ltd

Planning the ecology requirements of your project will save you money! By reducing the potential for delays or surprises you can complete your project on-time and in-budget.

Here are our top 5 tips for clients:

1. If you have a question, phone or email us. We will happily get you started thinking about what you might need to do – for free!


2. Be aware of the seasonal constraints on survey. Many species have to be surveyed in the spring or summer, if you miss the survey window it could mean a full years delay.


3. Get your work programmed with an ecologist as early as spossible If you wait, for example, until April to schedule a Great Crested Newt survey, you could find it hard to find someone available to do it (or be charged an arm and a leg by someone inexperienced and unqualified – not us!). April, May and June are our busiest months of the year.


4. Get everything ready – site maps, access arrangements, development plans, risk assessments, confidentiality agreements, can all be prepared ahead of field work and will speed things up considerably when the project kicks off.


5. If something doesn’t make sense, if you want to talk through a project in the pipeline – phone us!