King’s Somborne, Test Valley, Hampshire · Appointed

New Rural House, King’s Somborne

Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP: Biodiversity) · Landscape and Environmental Management Plan (LEMP)

Illustrative image — not the actual project design.

Liongate Construction Consultancy has been appointed to prepare a Construction Environmental Management Plan (Biodiversity) and a Landscape and Environmental Management Plan for a new house on a rural plot in King’s Somborne, Test Valley. Work is underway.

Our appointment

Test Valley Borough Council granted full planning permission for a new house on the site in October 2026, before our appointment; that permission is not our work. Its conditions require both plans to be approved before any development starts, including demolition, groundworks and vegetation clearance.

The CEMP (Biodiversity) will set out how construction impacts identified in the project's Ecological Impact Assessment are avoided or reduced: a risk assessment of potentially damaging activities, biodiversity protection zones, the location and timing of sensitive works, protective fencing and exclusion barriers, responsible persons and when a specialist ecologist needs to be on site.

The LEMP focuses on the beech hedgerow along the site's western boundary. It will describe and evaluate the hedgerow, set aims for its management, and provide management prescriptions and a work schedule, including an annual work plan that can be rolled forward over five years after the works, with responsibilities, monitoring and remedial measures.

Together, the two plans cover protecting habitats during construction and looking after the hedgerow in the longer term. Liongate was appointed in October 2026; the plans have not yet been submitted to or approved by the council.