Notice of environmental works to land north of Bower End Lane, Madeley

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 south of Bower End Lane. 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 do this, we will need to carry out some archaeological surveys.

We will surround these ponds with grassland habitat. We will use the ponds to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats. We will also install some new bird and bat boxes in the area to help the local wildlife.

When the work will take place

We will start the creation of the archaeological field walking on 5 September 2022.

The timeline for the works is shown below:

• Archaeological surveys – September ‘22
• Mitigation pond creation – September ’22 to March ‘23
• Bird and Bat box installation – January ’23 to February ‘23
• Grassland creation – March ‘23 to April ‘23
• Hedge and woodland planting – September ‘23 to October ‘23
• Demobilisation – late-November ‘23

Download information relating to these works

• Notice of environmental works to land north of Bower End Lane, Madeley

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