Does anyone out there have a fail-safe way of filling in pre-qualification forms? Of course not! We’re even sending Diana on a course to learn about them. I’d really like to get a group of Local Authority procurement people in a room to justify why they are all different and admit which bits are completely arbitrary. more

Holiday – for those of us with children. Hard work and a little more stress than usual for those left to run the shop. It’s only with such a trusted team that an owner manager of a business less than 6 months old could take a whole two weeks off in the knowledge that the business is in safe hands – thanks team, thanks Susan! more

After 7 days on site, I thought it was time to give you an insight into what has happened so far. Legacy habitat have put in the fence along the phase1 receptor site (although due to rubble could not follow the embankment to the north). We then carried out a destructive search of all the rubble/debris left at the north of the site. more

End of month accounts today, Tanya reported that despite billing way over target last month, we have NO aged debtors, not one! We’ve now got to revisit our cash flow model. more

I don�t think I have worked on a wind farm project without encountering a marsh harrier. Only once have I found a breeding site actually within a development area, but at all the sites they have been fairly regular visitors.

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Baker Consultants had been invited to tender for a number of contracts in Wales and so were keen to have an established contact in the vicinity. more

There is a need for the industry to work closely with Natural England to make sure that their systems are fit for purpose, can be easily implemented and achieve the aims of the legislation – which is to protect those rare and vulnerable species, the law may be complex but it does not mean that the systems which implement the law should add more complexity. more

Tanya joined us a few days after Susan (27th March 2009) and soon realised that her initial time-line for establishing Baker Consultant’s accounting systems needed drastic re-drafting and fast-tracking since Fred and Susan were bringing home won contracts from right across the country. more

First meeting after a week away in sunny Cornwall. Reminds me how much I love the sea which, living in land-locked Derbyshire, is a bit annoying. On the plus side, it is also sunny at home in the beautiful white peak so can’t complain. more

The Baker Consultants’ team had such a successful first few months that it was soon clear we needed another Consultant Ecologist more