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Our Consultancy and Operations team work together on a Great Crested Newt translocation

Our Consultancy and Operations team work together on a Great Crested Newt translocation

Published on 25 Jun 2024

Over the past few months, members of our Consultancy division have been supported by teams from our Bewdley depot on a Great Crested Newt translocation on the M40.

Our operations team were tasked with building 1000m newt fencing with pitfall traps, ladders, and floats plus creating four hibernaculas.

Hibernaculars are underground chambers which reptiles and amphibians use during the winter to keep themselves warm. This works has been a collaboration across Chevron Green Services and Consultancy, along with members or our trusted supply chain and our clients.

The newt fencing and pitfall traps are to capture and translocate any great crested newts or amphibians in the vicinity and move them to a safe receptor zone well away from the ongoing works.

All works were under a Natural England GCN licence and Consultancy team members also hold personal Great Crested Newt survey licences. We delivered the planned works to the timescale provided, despite there being a short mobilisation time whilst adapting to the challenging site conditions.

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“Chevron Green Consultancy, as part of our strategic supply chain have been working on landscape assessments within our survey programme of the soft estate. These surveys ascertain requirements for specific habitat management, resulting in a valuable data source which will inform effective future resource allocation and asset management. Our innovation in commissioning the surveys and the very high-quality data provided from CGC has been recognised nationally by National Highways as the standard required across all areas and is now the benchmark set for other areas to achieve.”

Nick Pilcher, Senior Environmental Specialist, National Highways

“Chevron Traffic Management has recently had the pleasure of working alongside Chevron Green Services on the Southwest M&R cyclic maintenance grass cutting works. The benefits this has given us has made a big impact on being able to maximise outputs whilst also collaborating with other works across the network. Having all this in-house has streamlined our processes and allowed us to build even stronger relationships throughout the Group businesses and with our client Ringway. It has been great working with Chevron Green Services, and we look forward to working alongside them for the rest of these works and future works to come.”

JayJay Whitehead, Interim Area Operations Manager, Chevron Traffic Management

“We have been working with Chevron Green Services for the past three months now on our HMPF contract, maintaining TfL’s trees and vegetation in the North London area. The teams provided by Dean and Matt have been first class and really have delivered some real quality work within a short timeframe. A fantastic team and company and I look forward to our continued collaboration.”

Matt Smith, Horticultural Supervisor, TKJV

“We are really pleased with the service provided by Chevron Green Services as part of our strategic supply chain. They’re very helpful; planning, organising and delivering all works streams to a high quality. We’re very happy with the level of service on our grassland and woodland plots and are looking forward to continuing our relationship with Chevron Green Services.”

Gary Lewis, Soft Estate Manager, Connect Plus Services

“From the offset Chevron Green Services were very professional. At the very first meeting Chevron Green Services reinforced Kier Highways strict stakeholder management policy and offered up assurances to a worried landowner. These assurances were upheld tenfold as the project met its conclusion. National Highways and Kier Highways were very happy with the stakeholder management as well as the quality of the works and agreed that they are happy to continue to work with Chevron Green Services in the future.”

Michael Smith, Project Manager Area 4 Schemes Dept, Kier Highways

“Chevron Green Services were very helpful throughout the scheme. The team undertook the works safely and used appropriate technology (such as robocutters) to eliminate risks where possible. The team were knowledgeable and even managed to easily accommodate vast changes to the scope of works when this was required.”

Shaun Craig, Site Agent, Ringway

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