Case Study
Site Preparation – Ashton Rise Housing Development
Site Preparation – Ashton Rise Housing Development JPR Environmental have been on site from the start to do vegetation clearance and great crested newt fencing on this housing development in Bristol’s Ashton Rise. The developer, Willmott Dixon, are working as Bristol City Council’s partner on its plans to develop 133 homes – 53 of them to be let as council housing – on the site of disused allotments and a former children’s home in Ashton Vale. JPR has worked with Willmott Dixon to get their site in Bristol to a stage where development can start. The area is home to a population of great crested newts which meant that the client had to fulfil certain planning requirements before they could start building. This included a sensitive vegetation clearance which had to take into account the re