ABOUT US
Middlemarch Environmental is one of the UK’s leading natural environment consultancies, based in Coventry, West Midlands. Since 1989, we’ve been helping our clients to get their ecology surveys actioned in time to meet tight planning deadlines. Today our expertise is called upon to address the many challenges that arise at the interface between nature and human society. We aim to be the consultant of choice for biodiversity advice and our mission is to create an enduring natural environment legacy.
Our size and nationwide coverage means that we can be on site quickly and in an average month we successfully complete more than 200 ecological and biodiversity projects nationwide for a wide range of public and private sector companies, including developers, minerals operators, landowners, utility companies, architects, and local authorities.
Our Services
Middlemarch Environmental have extensive experience of providing cost-effective ecological solutions for all aspects of your project, ranging from initial survey work to support a planning application, to the design and on-site delivery of mitigation. Our range of services includes:
- Preliminary ecological appraisal
- Ecological impact assessments
- BREEAM/Home Quality Mark (HQM) assessments
- Tree surveys and assessments
- GIS mapping and analysis
- Habitat design and creation
- Biodiversity services
Company History
Middlemarch was set up in 1989 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, which is itself part of The Wildlife Trusts, the largest voluntary organisation in the UK concerned with all aspects of nature conservation and the environment. Our vision is taken from the classic novel ‘Middlemarch’ written by George Eliot, published in 1872, from which the quote “to do good small work for Middlemarch and great work for the world” is taken. George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans on 22nd November 1819, at Arbury Farm in North Warwickshire – just over 5 miles away from our head office.
Our Credentials
The company and/or our staff are members of the following organisations;
- Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
- Arboricultural Association
- Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)
- Society for the Environment (SocEnv)
- British Ecological Society (BES)
- Society for Ecological Restoration
- Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
- Institute of Chartered Foresters
Our ecologists hold protected species licences in England, Wales and Scotland for European Protected Species including bats, dormice and great crested newts.
