Notice of environmental works on land to the west of Uttoxeter Road, Blithbury

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 ecological mitigation ponds surrounded by grassland habitat creation on land to the west of Uttoxeter Road. We will use the ponds to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats.

Before we start to construct the ponds, 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 will take place

We will start the excavation work on 15 August 2022. We will begin work to create the ponds themselves once we have carried out the archaeological work. The pond work will be ongoing throughout the year ready for planting the aquatic plants in them in autumn.

The timeline for the works is shown below:

• Archaeological Trial Trenching – August ‘22
• Mitigation pond creation – August ’22 to September ‘22
• Grassland creation – September ‘22 to October ‘22
• Hedge planting – September ’22 to October ‘22
• Demobilisation – late November ‘22

Download information relating to these works

• Notice of environmental works on land to the west of Uttoxeter Road, Blithbury

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