Update: notice of environmental works on land off Pipe Wood Lane, Blithbury
Work item: HS2-EW-BB-Ph2A-Prog-works-19-31/05/2022
Work Item Summary
- Project Phase
- Phase 2a
- Region
- Staffordshire
- Location
- Blithbury, Pipewood Lane
- Worksite Name
- Blithbury, Pipewood Lane
- Contractor
- Balfour Beatty
- Type of works
- Early Environmental Works, Environmental mitigation works
- Estimated Start Date
- 22/08/2022
- Estimated End Date
- 30/11/2022
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 have recently finished the archaeological trial trenches on land off Pipe Wood Lane. We will now start work to create ecological mitigation ponds. We will surround the ponds with grassland habitat that we will create as part of the work. We will use the ponds to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats.
When the work will take place
We will start the excavation work on 22 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:
- Mitigation pond creation – August ’22 to October ‘22
- Grassland creation – August ‘22 to October ‘22
- Hedge planting – September ’22 to October ‘22
- Demobilisation – late-November ‘22
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