Introduction
- Project description
- Refurbishment scheme. This involved constructing a plant room in the building roofspace and removing approximately 10% of the area available to roosting bats.
- Ecologist’s name and contact details
- Ecology Services UK Ltd
- Planning authority
- Vale Royal Borough Council
- Brief site description
- Former dwelling house and grand mansion surrounded by mature parkland with mature garden alongside, including extensive pastureland, pools and a small area of broadleaved woodland.
Pre-works roost structure
- Type of structure
- Building
- Use
- Domestic Dwelling
- Condition
- Not In Use
- Approx. age
- 150 years
- Main construction material of walls
- Brick
- Roof design
- Pitched Roof
- Roof material
- Slate
- Internal roof structure
- Timber Frame
Pre-works roost description
- Species
- Brown long-eared bat
- Number of bats max count
- 9
- Type of roost
- Day Roost
- Evidence of bats
- Bats Recorded Emerging/Re-entering
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- various
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 15m
- Roost material(s)
-
- brickwork
- bitumenFelt
- slateTiles
- timberRoofFrame
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Proposed works
- Description of works
- The aim is to retain and, where possible, enhance the existing roosts and associated flight areas in the buildings as part of the refurbishment process.
- Type of impact upon the roost
- Long-Term Roost Modification and Roost Loss
Proposed mitigations
- Type of mitigation
- Mitigation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- The aim is to retain and, where possible, enhance the existing roosts and associated flight areas in the buildings as part of the refurbishment process.
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- N
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 15m
- Roost material(s)
-
- Brickwork
- Bitumen Felt
- Slate Tiles
- Timber Roof Frame
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Actual mitigations implemented
- Type of mitigation
- Mitigation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- The aim is to retain and, where possible, enhance the existing roosts and associated flight areas in the buildings as part of the refurbishment process.
- Roost location
- In Roof Void
- Aspect of roost
- N
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 15m
- Roost material(s)
-
- Brickwork
- Bitumen Felt
- Slate Tiles
- Timber Roof Frame
- 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
- Evidence recorded
- Brown long eared droppings found within 3 weeks of work being completed.
