Introduction
- Project description
- Roost exclusion to prevent odours entering hotel bedrooms.
- Ecologist’s name and contact details
- Stan Irwin
- Planning authority
- Trafford Council
- Brief site description
- Hotel near runway of Manchester airport. Prominant nearby landscape features include woodland and river corridor.
Pre-works roost structure
- Type of structure
- Building
- Use
- Commercial Unit
- Condition
- In Use
- Approx. age
- 1960's
- Main construction material of walls
- Brick
- Roof design
- Pitched Roof
- Roof material
- Clay Tiled
- Internal roof structure
- Timber Frame
Pre-works roost description
- Species
- Soprano pipistrelle
- Number of bats max count
- 300 - 420
- Type of roost
- Maternity Roost
- Evidence of bats
- Bats Recorded Emerging/Re-entering
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- S
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 13
- Roost material(s)
-
- brickwork
- bitumenFelt
- timberRoofFrame
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Proposed works
- Description of works
- Roost exclusion to prevent odours entering hotel bedrooms.
- Type of impact upon the roost
- Long-Term Roost Modification and Roost Loss
Proposed mitigations
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- New roost built in roof void of external staircase.
Size: 16 square metres.
Materials: Concrete block, timber & roofing felt.
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- S
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 13
- Roost material(s)
-
- Bitumen Felt
- Timber Roof Frame
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Actual mitigations implemented
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- New roost built in roof void of external staircase.
Size: 16 square metres.
Materials: Concrete block, timber & roofing felt.
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- S
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 13
- Roost material(s)
-
- Bitumen Felt
- Timber Roof Frame
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Monitoring data
- Length of monitoring proposed
- 3 years.
- Frequency of monitoring
- Not reported.
- Type of monitoring
- Roost Inspection
- Date and time
- 2nd July 2012
- Evidence recorded
- Maternity roost of 300 - 416 following breeding season after completion of mitigation.
- Internal temperature and humidity recorded
- 15-18 degrees.
- Interventions made
- None reported.
