Notice of environmental works on land off Common Lane, Rileyhill

What we are doing

As part of our early environmental works, we will establish critical environmental and species relocation sites creating new habitats for local wildlife before any main work starts.

We will be creating an area of grassland on land off Common Lane, surrounding an existing pond. We will use this area to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats.

Before we start to construct the grassland habitat, we need to excavate some archaeological trial trenches. These are to help us understand if there are any archaeological features or natural geological deposits, that we need to be aware of before we start any other work. We will use a mechanical excavator to dig the trenches. No further excavation takes place at this stage.

When the work take place?

We will start the archaeological work on 05 July 2022. Later in the year we will plough, harrow, and seed the area with a wildflower seed mix, and plant a new hedge row.

The timeline for the works is shown below:

• Archaeological trial trenches – July ‘22
• Grassland creation – August to September ‘22
• Hedgerow planting – September to October ‘22
• Demobilisation – November ‘22

Download information relating to these works

• Notice of environmental works on land off Common Lane, Rileyhill

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