Awarded
Neath Port Talbot Replacement Local Development Plan. Candidate Sites - Habitat Surveys
Descriptions
An award has been made by Neath Port Talbot Council to appoint the services of a consultant or consultancy company, to undertake habitat surveys and produce basic ecological summary forms/reports for a number of sites throughout Neath Port Talbot. The surveys are intended to inform the assessment of ‘Candidate Sites’ for the Replacement Local Development Plan (RLDP).A Call for Candidate Sites was announced on 1st March 2022 and runs through to the noon on 31st May 2022. The Call for Candidate Sites is the first formal stage of preparing the RLDP - in accordance with Regulation 14(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development Plan) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (as amended 2015).Candidate Sites for inclusion in the plan can be promoted for development or protection for a variety of uses including, but not limited to, housing, employment, retail, tourism, community use, Gypsy and Traveller accommodation, education, health and social care, protection, leisure and recreation, green infrastructure, active travel, transport infrastructure, renewable energy, biodiversity, waste or minerals.The Council needs to establish which sites submitted during the Call are suitable for the proposed use and inclusion in the plan. This assessment includes consideration of up to date ecological information.It is the expectation of the chosen consultant to survey and produce ecological summary forms/reports for a number of ‘Candidate Sites’. This should include:•identification of habitats and species listed under S7 of the Environment Wales Act and/or that would meet the criteria for designation as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation,•identification of existing records or potential for protected species•identification of protected and local site designations•highlight other key ecological features, including ecological connectivity or potential to be important for green infrastructure/nature-based solutions.•It is expected that the form/report produced will include a plan of the site using a traffic light approach to assessing importance of features.The consultant will complete a programme of work made up of the following elements:1.The consultant will visit sites and undertake habitat surveys.2.The consultant will produce summary ecological reports/forms for each site surveyed; using traffic light plans to highlight key issues/features. A standard template will be developed by the consultant/s based on the example provided in Appendix G and will ensure the template is provided in an accessible format3.Work closely with the Countryside and Wildlife Team to ensure surveys and reports/forms are consistent with those being produced in-house, are fit for purpose and include all relevant and up to date information available.4.Help to provide training for new Countryside and Wildlife team members undertaking surveys to ensure consistency across all surveyors.5.A GIS layer of the mapping is preferred but if the consultant is not able to map directly onto a GIS system support may be provided by the Countryside and Wildlife Team.The consultant is expected to produce ecological summary forms/templates for a variety of sites in Neath Port Talbot, within an anticipated timescale of May, 2022 to 30th November, 2022. With survey work largely completed between May – September 2022; with write up/mapping over October – November. It is expected that completed summary forms/templates will be provided to the Countryside and Wildlife Team in batches throughout October and November. Due to the timing of RLDP delivery it is expected that at least draft versions of all sites will be required by the 2nd week of November with final copies being provided by the end of November 2022.
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90710000 - Environmental management
90712000 - Environmental planning
90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services
90722000 - Environmental rehabilitation
90712400 - Natural resources management or conservation strategy planning services
90720000 - Environmental protection
Keywords
environmental planning
ecological governance
environmental policy implementation
regulatory compliance
environmental auditing
green strategy
environmental oversight
eco-administration
sustainable management
environmental coordination
ecological land-use design
natural resource zoning
environmental strategy development
sustainable infrastructure planning
habitat preservation planning
ecological impact planning
green space design
environmental policy mapping
ecosystem management planning
natural resource management planning
conservation strategy design
resource sustainability planning
ecosystem service mapping
watershed management planning
biodiversity conservation strategy
land resource governance
integrated ecology planning
resource use optimization
habitat restoration planning
environmental consultancy
sustainability advice
ecological expert services
environmental impact advisory
green business consultancy
environmental risk consultancy
regulatory compliance services
eco-strategy consultancy
environmental policy support
nature preservation consultancy
ecological preservation
pollution control
biodiversity conservation
natural resource defense
environmental safeguarding
habitat protection
emission mitigation
sustainability enforcement
eco-regulation services
conservation compliance
ecosystem restoration
contaminated site cleanup
land reclamation
habitat re-establishment
degraded area recovery
wetland rehabilitation
ecological disturbance repair
reclamation planning
environmental renewal
eco-restoration services
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2 Tender Lots
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