Services

“We were really impressed with Ecological Clerk of Works support we received from CEC. The team were great to work with and really helped things to run as smoothly as possible, responding quickly and with practical solutions.”

CEC have effectively developed the technical aspects of this Project and trained local volunteers to prepare parish scale local landscape character assessments across 6 parishes in West Penwith, in collaboration with Penwith Landscape Project officers. This hasn’t been without its challenges, in particular, the pandemic prevented the ability to continue with certain aspects of the project such as working with volunteer groups. The CEC team and PLP officers have successfully overcome those challenges and used their extensive knowledge of the Cornish landscape and experience of working with the local community to collate these detailed character assessments and are producing them to high professional standard.”

“We contacted CEC as we are planning to build on our land and wanted to support the business arm of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust and felt CEC would have a wide range of ecology expertise. We were not disappointed! We requested an ecological survey for planning (PEA). This identified the need for an additional species survey. The ecologists were friendly and passionate about their work. We found their knowledge to be so educational in developing and enhancing our project around the strengths of the existing habitat. For example, providing planting suggestions and how to create different habitats for various species in the new building and the landscaping. Crucially CEC also provided an easy to follow and achieve mitigation strategy for protected species during the building process. The experience has been so positive, especially with having such enthusiastic people guiding us. With biodiversity seriously declining over recent years, it is a fantastic feeling to be able to give something back to nature. We so look forward to being colonised in the future by additional species, such as bats and lizards!”