The former Vesuvius industrial foundry site in Nottinghamshire, is a brown field site that is to be commercially re-developed by Commercial Estates Group (CEG). It consists of hard-standing, neutral rough grassland, a railway embankment, an old football pitch and two Local Wildlife Sites (LWS); Tranker’s Wood and Tranker’s Marsh.

Three species of reptiles are present on the site, with a significant population of slow worms present in the development foot-print that needed to be translocated to other areas of the site.

Baker Consultants was contracted to manage the translocation process and monitoring.

Increasingly developers are required to define and take responsibility for species or habitats in the long term. This may be as the result of mitigation for species affected by a development, translocated out of an area to be developed or the remediation of sites damaged by past practice.