Shirebrook Colliery

Customer: East Midlands Development Agency

Value: £3.1 million

VHE completed the reclamation of this derelict site, associated spoil tip and adjacent former sewage treatment works and transformed the 60ha redundant site into development plots.

Ecological and environmental issues included:

• Newt relocation involving initial survey working under licence and constructing alternative habitat for them to relocate to.
• Worked around a nesting pair of swans in one of the existing ponds undergoing alteration.
• Relocation of reeds within the open channel and ponds.

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