Introduction
- Project description
- Repair and replacement of windows and windowsills involved the removal of a common pipistrelle day roost. Compensation was provided via Ibstock bat brick(s).
- Ecologist’s name and contact details
- Ecology Services UK Ltd
- Planning authority
- Burnley Borough Council
- Brief site description
- Leisure centre with diverse surrounding landscape including amenity grassland, car parks and road, disused railway line (cycleway and footpath), mature urban parkland, river, mix of residential and commercial development.
Pre-works roost structure
- Type of structure
- Building
- Use
- Commercial Unit
- Condition
- In Use
- Approx. age
- 50 years
- Main construction material of walls
- Brick
- Roof design
- Flat Roof
- Roof material
- Pressed Metal Sheet Roof
- Internal roof structure
- Timber Frame
Pre-works roost description
- Species
- Common pipistrelle
- Number of bats max count
- 2
- Type of roost
- Day Roost
- Evidence of bats
- Bats Recorded Emerging/Re-entering
- Roost location
- Gaps Around Window or Door Frame
- Aspect of roost
- N
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 2.5
- Roost material(s)
-
- brickwork
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- S
Proposed works
- Description of works
- Repair and replacement of windows and windowsills involved the removal of a common pipistrelle day roost. Compensation was provided via Ibstock bat brick(s).
- Type of impact upon the roost
- Long-Term Roost Modification and Roost Loss
Proposed mitigations
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- Ibstock bat brick provided within the wall above the original roost location underneath the repaired window sill.
Size: 215mm x 290mm (Ibstock standard)
Materials: Fired clay
- Roost location
- Bat Box
- Aspect of roost
- E
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- Not reported
- Roost material(s)
-
- Brickwork
- Other
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Actual mitigations implemented
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- Ibstock bat brick provided within the wall above the original roost location underneath the repaired window sill.
Size: 215mm x 290mm (Ibstock standard)
Materials: Fired clay
- Roost location
- Other
- Aspect of roost
- E
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- Not reported
- Roost material(s)
-
- Brickwork
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Monitoring data
- Length of monitoring proposed
- Not reported
- Frequency of monitoring
- Not reported
- Type of monitoring
- Roost Inspection
- Date and time
- 1st September 2010
- Evidence recorded
- Droppings found on lip of 2/3 boxes September 2010.
- Interventions made
- None reported.
