CHALLENGES The former Vesuvius industrial foundry site in Nottinghamshire, is a brown field site that is to be commercially re-developed by Commercial Estates Group (CEG). Development includes a hotel, supermarket, and a football stadium for Worksop Town FC together with over 200,000sqf of employment accommodation. The site consists of hard-standing, neutral rough grassland, a railway embankment, an old football pitch and two Local Wildlife Sites (L WS). Three species of reptiles are present on the site, with a significant population of slow worms that are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, a UKBAP priority species and a Species of Principal Importance under NERC Act. Slow worms are present in the development foot-print and needed to be translocated to other areas of the sit

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