Ecology
Ecological Consultants
If you are looking for help with specialist ecological advice and services for small or large scale projects nationwide, you can trust Lockhart Garratt to deliver practical and innovative solutions. Our team is fully licensed in working with most protected species, including great crested newts and bats.
Lockhart Garratt have a wide range of practical experience with key species such as birds, reptiles and mammals including badgers.
A list of the available Ecology services are below or get in touch with our company Chairman John Lockhart to discuss your needs.

Ecology Services
Habitat & Protected Species Surveys
Ecological surveys are now regularly requested by planning authorities as a standard part of the planning application process. Our in-house team of experienced ecologists are capable of evaluating the extent of survey required so as to reduce costs and limit potential time delays for all parties concerned.
Our team has all the necessary skills, experience and licences to complete any ecological survey to satisfy planning requirements and conditions.
To view our calender of ecological survey timings please click here.
Licensing & Mitigation Schemes
Habitat Creation, Restoration & Management
Habitat creation and enhancement is now a regular requirement for an approved planning permission. It can improve designated sites and can contribute to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objectives.
We are able to provide a full suite of services ranging from the sourcing and installation of wildlife boxes, to the creation of new woodland, meadow, wetland and other habitats.
As our ecologists have a strong land management background they always ensure that new habitats are cost effective to create and maintain in the long term.
Stakeholder Engagement
With our wider professional experience of land management, Lockhart Garratt enjoys excellent professional relationships with the key environmental stakeholders at both a local and national level.
On your behalf, we are able to use these trusted relationships to deliver positive and proactive engagement that can help to resolve potential issues before they have a negative impact on projects. We can use this extensive experience in facilitating and managing engagement strategies of projects from small local developments to nationally important urban extensions and new settlements.
Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA)
Lockhart Garratt are able to conduct a full EcIA which can stand alone as an ecological report or form part of a full Environmental Impact Assessment.
We develop these reports using thorough desk research, engaged consultation with stakeholders and site surveys as required to mitigate against operational, post-construction, and cumulative impacts from a development.
For further information please contact John Lockhart.
Ecology Projects
The following are an example of the Ecology projects we have completed for our clients.
Ecology Team
Get in touch with one of the Ecology team to discuss your needs.
Ecology News
The following are news and information items from the Ecology team.
Biodiversity Net Gain Update
Further to our recent articles DEFRA have recently published their consultation response to the Defra Metric 2 – Beta Test Version. As a business we have fed back extensively to the consultation, not least through specialist workshops focused around the need to find a...
An Update from Lockhart Garratt (3rd August 2020)
This month’s newsletter provides: a summer update on ash dieback; an interesting article making sense of the requirements for felling licences when the trees are subject a TPO; a link to our recording of our latest webinar 'Making sense of environmental gain'; details...
An update from Lockhart Garratt (2nd July 2020)
This month's newsletter provides details on our upcoming webinar 'Making sense of environmental gain', details of the recent England Tree Strategy consultation launch and the relaunch of the ELM scheme policy discussion documents, an update from RPA and much more....