ISO 9001

Congratulations and thanks to everyone at Legacy for achieving ISO9001 accreditation. With robust quality control processes in place the company is well placed to move forward with its development in 2011. ISO 9001:2008 is the International Standard for Quality Management Systems and is recognised worldwide. It is essentially a set of guidelines for running a company in such a way that customer requirements are satisfied first time, on time, each and every time. We hope to live up to these expectations.
The implementation was part funded by MAS and overseen by Hatton Parkinson Associates.

Caudon Newt Fencing Sledge

The recent snowy weather has not only brought on some hazardous road conditions and general travel chaos, but has also generated the usual rush to the shops for bread, milk and other essential items like... sledges.


This has led to the recent discovery that our Caudon 4mm HDPE Permanent Newt Fencing makes a most excellent sledge.

Cut into 600mm wide sections, meaning you can get 4 sledges out of one panel, the extremely hard wearing and smooth HDPE material glides perfectly across fresh snow, compacted snow and ice. The top fold provides a great handle to hold up the front of the sledge and used in a 'lying on your front' style, it can easily be steered with the feet.

Easily the fastest sledge I have been on this year. Buy your Caudon Sledge at http://www.wildlifefencing.co.uk

Legacy awarded CHAS accreditation.

Legacy Habitat Management Ltd are pleased to announce that they have been awarded CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) accreditation.

We have undergone a 12 month assessment to demonstrate that we are compliant to a number of essential Health & Safety standards as set by CHAS including important elements of Health & Safety Law.



 The principle aims of CHAS are:

• To improve health and safety standards across Great Britain.
• To reduce duplicated safety applications for both suppliers and buyers.

At Legacy Habitat Management, we take Health & Safety very seriously with our primary aim to provide and maintain a safe place of work, safe systems of work, safe equipment and a healthy and safe working environment. Being CHAS compliant helps us to re-enforce this to our customers and be part of a national scheme to improve health & safety.

Legacy switches to Aspen Fuel

At Legacy Habitat Management Ltd, we use various bits of 2-stroke petrol driven equipment such as chainsaws, brush cutters, hedge trimmers etc but have often experienced reliability issues with such kit.

The nature of our work means that some contracts require these bits of equipment, but others don't, meaning that the equipment often sits idle for periods of time. It is after these periods of inactivity that we have found engines not starting or poor engine performance.

We have always used standard unleaded petrol, mixed with 2-stroke oil for this equipment, which we believe might be where the problems occur. When sitting idle, any fuel left in the equipment evaporates over time, leaving behind its constituent 2-stroke oil as a sticky residue. This blocks fuel lines and clogs up spark plugs, causing the problems we have experienced. Ordinary petrol also contains hundreds of different substances including unsaturated hydrocarbons that can cause of build up of residues in engines and carburettors. It is also these hydrocarbons, sulphur and olefins, along with substances such as benzene, present in ordinary petrol that can have some serious health & environmental consequences.

Aspen fuel, a type of Alkylate fuel is produced synthetically from the clean gasses released during the refining of crude oil. As there are already fewer impurities at source, alkylate fuel is a very clean fuel which only consists of around ten substances without the hazardous components such as benzene, aromatic hydrocarbons, sulphur & olefins.

Alkylate fuel runs cleaner, leaving fewer engine deposits and produces far fewer toxic exhaust emissions, this is both beneficial to the health of the operator and the environment, and will hopefully reduce our equipment repair costs.

Aspen fuel is available in the following formats:

• Aspen 2 - for 2 stroke equipment such as chainsaws, brushcutters etc.
• Aspen 4 - for 4 stroke equipment such as lawnmowers, rotavators, boat engines etc.

No modifications are required to equipment.

For further information about Aspen alkylate petrol visit Anglo American Oil Company ltd at their website: www.aaoil.co.uk/environment

Wildlife Fencing Design Guide & Working with Wildlife Site Guide - Back in Stock

Wildlife Fencing Design Guide & Working with Wildlife Site Guide are back in stock at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk.

These guides offer a great reference manual for anyone working in the wildlife mitigation industry. Visit the Publications page at www.wildlifefencing.co.uk for further information on each book.

Pdf examples of both guides can be viewed by clicking on the above images.

Baker Consultants Open Day

I would like to thank Andrew Baker and his team at Baker Consultants for a very interesting and enjoyable evening at their new Cromford Station premises.

The evening began with a warm welcome and introduction by Andrew, and an outline of the ecology landscape for 2011.

Senior Ecologist, Paul Howden-Leach then took over the helm and demonstrated the new Wildlife Acoustics SM2 Remote Bat Detector equipment. Paul recently took this equipment to the National Bat Conference at Loughborough University, showcasing its benefits over other products on the market and how its improved functionality can aid with bat call data analysis.

We then donned our boots and coats for a guided local heritage walk around Cromford, with an amusing and informative history talk about Richard Arkwright and his cotton spinning mill in the village. The return walk along the river was lead by Senior Ecologist, Kelly Clark who showed various bat detecting devises in use and explained some of the 'clicks' & 'cracks' made by the equipment and how these relate to different bat species and activities.

All in all, a very pleasant evening and a great opportunity to meet some of the Baker team. Very tasty scones too!

£££ Badger Fencing Price Reduction £££

As badger mitigation works are often carried out at this time of year, wildlifefencing.co.uk have reduced the price of badger netting products to help you complete your badger mitigation projects.

We have slashed up to 20% from 50m rolls of high tensile badger netting, available in 3 netting profiles (HT15/158/8, HT17/194/8 & HT19/238/8).

Caudon^® Badger Gates are in stock. These heavy duty, galvanised steel gates are extremely robust, they can hold up against the destructive nature of badgers, can be hammered into hard ground and will survive all that British weather can throw at them.

Visit www.wildlifefencing.co.uk now and place an order, or phone us on 0114 261 9478, we would be happy to help with your requirements.

New Address & Telephone Number Summary

All of our new address details and phone numbers are now all operational.
To summarise:

Telephone numbers:
Legacy Habitat Management Ltd: 0114 256 0106
wildlifefencing.co.uk (material sales): 0114 261 9478
Fax: 0114 242 0330

Email addresses:
Legacy Habitat Management Ltd: info@legacy-habitat.co.uk
wildlifefencing.co.uk: sales@wildlifefencing.co.uk

Websites:
Legacy Habitat Management Ltd: www.legacy-habitat.co.uk
wildlifefencing.co.uk: www.wildlifefencing.co.uk

Address:
Legacy Habitat Management Ltd
Legacy House
Unit 2a Greasbro Road
Sheffield
S9 1TN

Apologies for any inconvenience that this change-over has caused.
Regards
Legacy.

New Telephone Number

Our new Legacy Habitat Management telephone number is:

0114 256 0106

This number should also be used for wildlifefencing.co.uk for the time being.
Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

New Address

We have now moved into our new larger premises. Our new address is:

Legacy Habitat Management Ltd
Legacy House
2A Greasbro Road
Sheffield
S9 1TN

We also have a new fax number:
0114 242 0330

Our main phone numbers are still
0114 276 0001 (legacy Habitat Management)
0114 273 1751 (wildlifefencing.co.uk)
These will be changing soon so watch this space for further information.

Office Move

Legacy Habitat Management Ltd and wildlifefencing.co.uk are currently in the process of moving to a new, larger premises.

Our phone lines are yet to be installed at the new office.

Our existing phone numbers:
0114 276 0001 (Legacy Habitat Management)
0114 273 1751 (wildlifefencing.co.uk)
should continue to work for the time being but we have recently been experiencing some problems with these lines.

If you are having any difficulties in reaching us by phone, please email us on:
info@legacy-habitat.co.uk
and we will answer your enquiry as quickly as possible.

Watch this space for details of our new address and telephone numbers.
Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Case Study: Ecology & The Law

Article taken from Legacy Habitat Times, written by Penny
Simpson, Environmental Lawyer, at DLA Piper LLP (Issue 5, Autumn 2009)

2009 was an interesting year in the world of nature conservation and wildlife protection law!
 
There has been an important judgement given by the High Court in relation to a case called Woolley v Cheshire East Council. It is a case which puts the spotlight on developments which will have impacts on European Protected Species such as great crested newts, bats, dormice or otters. The case has looked carefully at the questions the Local Planning Authority must ask itself when considering applications which may have detrimental impacts on these animals or their habitats. The case has confirmed that the Local Planning Authority must address itself to three crucial questions. These questions are in fact the tests which Natural England, the licensing authority, will also have to apply after planning permission has been granted when it comes to consider whether to grant a European Protected Species licence to allow the development to proceed. These tests are to consider whether the development proposal can be said to be necessary for imperative reasons of overriding public interest; whether there are any satisfactory alternatives to the development; and whether adequate mitigation is being offered so as to ensure that the "favourable conservation status" of the species can be maintained. Prior to this case, a strict interpretation of the law indicated that a Local Planning Authority would have to consider these three tests. However, it is only this case which has clarified from the court's point of view that this is definitely the case. We are already seeing a need for developers to be far more clear on how they regard these three tests as being met in their planning applications. We are given advice to a number of our clients on the best way of drafting the arguments.

The other significant development in relation to European Protected Species is that Natural England has altered its procedures and application forms which have to be completed in order to apply for a European Protected Species licence. These are now far more onerous forms to complete. There are in particular many questions which Natural England now requires answers which focus on the three licensing tests as described above. We are finding that increasing numbers of our clients are having their licence applications rejected, not because the mitigation offered is inadequate, but because Natural England is not satisfied that they are meeting the other two tests ie relating to alternatives and reasons of overriding public interest. We have been providing advice to a number of our developer clients on how to resolve these difficulties and have in all cases to date succeeded in allowing our clients to obtain such licenses.

Finally, the Environmental Damage Regulations entered into force in March this year. These implement the Environmental Liability Directive from the European Union. Under this new regime those carrying out operations on land which may need environmental consents such as for waste operations or PPC operations, could become exposed to significant costs arising from the requirement to remediate "environmental damage" (as defined) in the Regulations. The aim of this new regime is to focus in on the 300 or so pollution incidents per year which are regarded as being particularly significant and to require those who have caused the damage to not pay a fine but actually instead to carry out the work necessary to rectify the damage. "Environmental Damage" is defined in very strict ways. Contaminating land in a way so as to create harm to health is one aspect, polluting water in a significant way is another, and creating damage to biodiversity is the third and most novel aspect of the new regime. It is this latter aspect which we expect to have the greatest impact.

For any advice on these issues please contact Penny
Simpson, Environmental Lawyer, at DLA Piper LLP.
T: 0114 283 3467; E: penny.simpson@dlapiper.com

Trencher & Machinery Hire

Legacy Habitat Management have opened the new year with the launch of a new trencher hire and specialist machinery hire service.

We have a number of specialist trenching machines available at competitive prices, ranging from a small but versitile pedestrian trencher, up to a large excavator mounted trencher, capable of cutting through concrete and hard aggregates. Specifically designed for cable laying and drainage systems, they are ideal for cutting trenches on wildlife fencing projects such as newt fencing, water vole fencing etc.
As well as trenching machinery, we have other equipment available for hire to assist in other projects such as fencing, scrub clearance, seed collection etc.

Full list of available equipment :

• AFT MH100 Excavator Mounted Trencher
• AFT Whizz Wheel Trencher  
• Bobcat Chain Trencher LT313  
• Camon TR12 Pedestrian Trencher  
• Quickfencer  
• PP3 Post Puncher  
• Peruzzo C2000CHS Contractor Flail Mower Collector   

Visit: www.hire-trencher.co.uk for further details or call 0114 276 0001 where we will be happy to assists with your enquiry.