Update: notice of environmental works on land off Eccleshall Road, Stone

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 off Eccleshall Lane. We will use the ponds to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats.

We have already started work at this location. Before we could start to construct the habitat areas, we needed to install a temporary bridge over an existing ditch to allow us access. This is now in place and will remain in place until we complete the work. We will now start work to excavate some archaeological trial trenches. These will 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.

When the work will take place

We will start the excavation work on 13 July 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 – July ‘22 to August ‘22
Mitigation pond creation – August ’22 to October ‘22
Hedge planting – September ’22 to October ‘22
Grassland creation – March ‘23 to April ‘23
Demobilisation – April ‘23

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• Update: notice of environmental works on land off Eccleshall Road, Stone

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