{"id":599,"date":"2025-06-05T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:48:47","slug":"preliminary-ecological-appraisal-pea-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/preliminary-ecological-appraisal-pea-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) London"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) London<\/h1>\n<p>If asked to describe where in London you might think a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) would be least likely to be required I expect a few people might say Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_600\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/500px-Admiral_Horatio_Nelson_Nelsons_Column_Trafalgar_Square_London-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/500px-Admiral_Horatio_Nelson_Nelsons_Column_Trafalgar_Square_London-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/500px-Admiral_Horatio_Nelson_Nelsons_Column_Trafalgar_Square_London.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Admiral Horatio Nelson atop Nelson&#8217;s Column<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which is why we were surprised to conducting a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) in Trafalgar Square, London just last week (June 2025).<\/p>\n<p>So what did we find?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>limited habitat, even for breeding birds such as Feral pigeons <em>Columba livia<\/em><\/li>\n<li>[project] does not impact any priority habitats, it involves only sealed surfaces with zero biodiversity value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there we are the pigeons got a mention at least.<\/p>\n<p>If you require a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA)\u00a0 for a site within the greater london area, we can provide a quotation.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/contacts.html\">contact us<\/a>. Quickest way to get a quote is to email over a set of plans.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Beata May, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) London If asked to describe where in London you might think a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) would be least likely to be required I expect a few people might say Trafalgar Square. Which is why we were surprised to conducting a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) in Trafalgar Square, London just last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","tag-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}