PJ Brown and Cumnor House School

Johns Associates has completed an initial ecological appraisal of the buildings and estate at Cumnor House School, West Sussex in support of proposals to construct a new cricket pitch and playing field.  The work defined the ecological baseline for the planning application and for a subsequent Ecological Masterplan for the site that sits alongside and enables the existing School Masterplan for Development.  Areas were identified where potential ecological mitigation and enhancement, required to facilitate planning permission, could be implemented.  As a result it was possible to identify a joined-up approach to habitats within the school site in order to maximise their nature conservation value and aimed at providing an important ecological educational resource.