Habitat creation scheme for Bristol
The Bristol Port Company has contracted ABPmer to lead a team that will design and deliver a habitat creation scheme on the Steart Peninsula.
ABPmer will be working with Jacobs to design a scheme that will create over 120 hectares of intertidal habitat for birds and other wildlife. The scheme is needed to compensate for an area of foreshore that will be reclaimed when the Company builds a new container terminal at Avonmouth near Bristol in the Severn Estuary.
Bristol Port has consent to build the new container terminal to accommodate the largest deepsea ships and help the UK to handle the predicted future demand for container ships to bring goods into the UK. ABPmer will be preparing the environmental impact assessment and associated consents package for the port which expects to apply for planning permission later in 2011.
By David Foxwell
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