I am a Chartered Ecologist with over 20 years’ experience offering a broad range of surveys, licensing and practical ecological solutions.
Based in Barnstaple, North Devon, I work with householders, planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, restoration managers, and arborists across the South West - offering clear, sensible advice in plain English, fairly priced and supported on the ground throughout your project.
Qualifications: PG Cert – Biological recording and Species Identification; MSc – Biological Recording – Collection and Management; CS38 - Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue; IPAF – MEWP (Cherry Picker), Scissor and static Boom Lift; LANTRA – Chainsaw and brush-cutter operation; BC – 1* & 2* (white water canoeing).
Competences: Ecology survey, habitat survey, Veteran / Ancient tree survey, Hedgerow Regulations survey, great crested newt survey and Licensing, peregrine survey, barn own survey, reptile survey and Licensing, badger survey and Licensing, dormouse survey and Licensing, bat survey and Licensing, comprehensive Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) input.
Licences: Jersey cudweed (historic project Licences), great crested newt (Class Licence), smooth snake (Survey Licence), sand lizard (Survey Licence), badger (historic project Licences), dormouse (Class Licence), all bats (Class Licence).
Qualifications: AAT Accounting Levels 1-3 (currently pursuing Level 4).
Role and responsibilities: Supporting projects from start to finish through data collation and interpretation, GIS mapping, and organising surveys. This includes preparing quotes, managing purchase orders and invoices, arranging access and survey dates, and acting as a second point of contact for you, so questions are answered quickly.
Specialsim: Grace under pressure.
Wherever possible and safe to do so, I carry out all fieldwork myself. This means that when you appoint me, you work directly with me rather than a third-party subcontractor.
If a project requires specialist expertise beyond my own, I’m always open about this and will recommend people I know, trust, and would happily employ myself.
In the office, I’m supported by my partner, Theresa Radcliffe. Theresa manages data collation and digital mapping, including organising searches with the Local Biological Records Centre where required. She also brings together all field data so we can clearly understand what is present across your site, and handles quotations, scheduling, and the financial side of the business, while I take care of fieldwork and health and safety.
Theresa and I work from our office in Bickington, Barnstaple, Devon and all the tools I use are stored on a unit on the A361. From here I travel all over North Devon and across the southwest of England and south Wales.
I am a Chartered Ecologist based in Barnstaple, covering North Devon, and the South West of England.