Meridian directs the ecological science, statutory consenting, and field-survey programmes behind major infrastructure, energy, and land-use developments — from baseline through construction to long-term stewardship. We are the firm brought in when the environment is not a checkbox, but the critical path.
Six integrated disciplines under one accountable programme lead. The team that walks the ground writes the evidence that stands up in examination.
Protected-species surveys, habitat condition assessment, and phased seasonal field programmes designed to survive statutory and judicial scrutiny.
Environmental Impact Assessment, Habitats Regulations Assessment, and cumulative-effects analysis integrated with the engineering design as it evolves.
End-to-end management of applications, examination, and expert-witness advocacy — including DCO, s.36, and cross-border consenting for nationally significant projects.
BNG strategy, habitat banking, and origination of verifiable natural-capital units — structured to be both ecologically real and institutionally investable.
Construction Environmental Management, ECoW supervision, and multi-year mitigation delivery — governed as a capital programme, reported to the board.
Long-horizon monitoring, remote-sensing and geospatial analytics, and independently assured reporting for lenders, regulators, and public inquiry.
We work where consent risk can halt a project and where the standard of evidence is set by the courts, the lenders, and the regulator.
Offshore & onshore wind, solar, grid, and transmission — ornithology, marine mammals, and cumulative-effects at scale.
Road, rail, ports, and airports where linear routes cross designated sites and protected habitat.
ESIA to IFC Performance Standards, closure planning, and biodiversity offsets for extractive majors.
Flood alleviation, reservoirs, and coastal realignment — hydro-ecology and habitat creation.
Large-estate natural-capital strategy, rewilding, and landscape-scale recovery programmes.
National agencies and sovereign funds requiring independent ecological governance and assurance.
Four governed phases. Every deliverable is designed to be defensible in examination and legible to a board, a lender, and a regulator at once.
We define the ecological question precisely, then design a proportionate field programme against it. Seasonal survey windows, protected-species licences, and data standards are fixed at the outset — because a gap discovered at examination is a project measured in lost quarters.
Assessment runs alongside engineering, not after it. We resolve impacts by shaping the design — mitigation by hierarchy, avoidance first — so that what reaches the regulator is already a defensible, buildable scheme rather than a problem to be argued.
We carry the case through determination and examination, providing the expert-witness evidence and regulator engagement that turn a well-built application into a granted consent — at first determination wherever the evidence allows.
Consent is the start, not the finish. We supervise construction, deliver the mitigation and net-gain commitments on the ground, and monitor outcomes across the years the conditions require — with assured reporting the whole way.
Our reputation is our permit to operate. Every programme is governed to independent standards and built to withstand the scrutiny of the parties who matter most.
Work is led and signed by Chartered Ecologists and Environmentalists, with a named programme director accountable to your board for the full lifecycle.
Every record is captured to a documented field protocol with a full chain of custody — auditable from the point of observation to the published report.
We provide the independent ecological assurance that project finance, IFC-aligned lenders, and public examiners require before capital moves.
We do not shape findings to a predetermined outcome. Where a scheme cannot be made consentable, we say so early — and are retained because of it.
Representative of the scale and sensitivity at which we operate. Named references available under NDA to qualified principals.
The earliest ecological decisions carry the most leverage. Tell us about the project and the constraint — a programme director will respond within one working day with a considered first view on where the consent risk sits.
Monday–Friday, 08:00–18:00 GMT. We're glad to work under your NDA from first contact.
Submissions are confidential. Please don't send detailed sensitive information until an NDA is in place — just ask and we'll return an executed copy first.