DesignDesign: Back at design stage…
Design stage
The ecologist finds protected newts in the pond by the access road. A licence follows: fence them out in autumn, move them in spring, and an ecologist on hand for any digging nearby.
Priya's journey · Assurance · Story 4
The newts
The licence for the protected newts is in an appendix. The digger is in the pond.
The wrong way
The report
It all goes into Appendix F of the environmental report. The site drawings show a pond. Just a pond.
BuildBuild: March…
March
The groundworks gang strip the ground for the site compound, right up to the water. No fence, no ecologist.
March
Rex finds a newt in the digger bucket. He's quite pleased. Then he sees Priya's face.
That afternoon
Work stops. The ecologist comes, the wildlife regulator is told, and the licence conditions have been broken.
Three months
The compound moves, the access road waits for the next window to move the newts, and the programme loses three months.
The newts were in the report. The report never reached site.
Find out what Priya should have donePriya's Lesson 4 · The newts, then the same story done the right way.