Lend Lease Facilities Management

In consultation with Natural England, Johns Associates worked with Lend Lease to develop a solution to enable maintenance on ponds at Worcestershire Royal Hospital estate to proceed without affecting the great crested newts discovered there.  This charismatic amphibian must be handled by holders of a Protected Species Licence such as Johns Associates who were employed to manage the project.  Two thirds of the ponds were sensitively cleared-out during the winter, when the newts were in hibernation.  One third of the aquatic vegetation was retained within each pond to ensure newts have suitable breeding habitat available in the spring.