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EnvironmEntal Support and ComplianCE updatE Richard Brooks Principle Environmental Advisor Since the last edition of Sanctuary (43 2014) the Conservation team has been part of a major re-organisation within DIO. This re-organisation saw the creation of a newly named directorate - that of DIO Safety, Environment and Engineering (DIO SEE). At the risk of accusations of plagiarism – it does exactly what it says on the tin! i.e. Safety (Health and Safety), Environment and Engineering. This grouping contains the specialists within these areas who offer professional support, advice and guidance in these key business areas. The Conservation Team has been rebadged as the Environmental Support and Compliance Team (ES&C) which again ensures that our title reflects better what we deliver as a team as opposed to suggesting we only ‘do’ conservation. The team still contains the same areas of expertise (as can be seen to the right) and works very closely with the Town and Environmental Planning Team, also within DIO SEE, under the umbrella of Environment and Planning Support. This group is headed up by Paul Wilson who recently returned from a three year posting in the Falkland Islands to take up this role. DIO ES&C specialists provide in-house statutory duties through SSSI, expertise to DIO and the wider MOD Stewardship and Integrated Rural by providing advice & guidance in the Management Plan programmes fields of: Specialist ecological support/advice including Habitat Regulations Access & Recreation Assessments and Protected Species • Technical & legal support on access management. Integrating training & recreation legislation and into designated landscapes. management of the public on the MOD estate. Provides part of the Conservation Groups and Sanctuary ‘Safe Place to Train’ assurance. • The ES&C also supports MOD Conservation Groups across the Forestry & Woodland estate and is responsible for the • Providing and maintaining Sanctuary Awards and the woodlands and trees for military production of Sanctuary Magazine. training and capability whilst We would encourage all areas of unlocking the sustainable economic MOD business including project returns. Legislation, policy, audit/ partners and individuals to suggest assurance, industry best practice articles for the 2016 Sanctuary and safe working practices across magazine and to consider putting the estate to ensure compliance and forward projects and individuals for liability management. the 2016 Awards. Historic Environment Sustainable Development Support • Advice and expertise allowing MOD and Environmental Planning to sympathetically manage the • Advice & support regarding the archaeological monuments and implementation & integration of landscapes on the estate whilst sustainable development and enabling training capability. environmental planning best • Providing support to meet practice into estate management. Departmental Government targets, As the magazine highlights, we actively including heritage appreciation, encourage organisational collaboration training and preservation of historic and project partnership and we would MOD archives. Advice and support be happy to discuss any ideas you have relating to historic buildings and to further integrate conservation / gardens to allow for the best use of sustainability into our business. the buildings for MOD capability. Natural Environment • Statutory assessments and approvals Please see the opposite page for development processes, fulfilling for all contact details. Heather on the open acid grasslands of Stanford Training Area (STANTA) © crown I would like to take this opportunity to thank Paul for his engagement and the ES&C team (and other SEE environmental staff ) for all of their continued efforts across the MOD estate. Their commitment to ensuring that the MOD estate continues to be such a valued resource of such environmental interest whilst enabling challenging MOD activity to go ahead on such a designated and sensitive estate deserves due recognition. The MOD estate will continue to facilitate continuous changes in militar y activity and operations. ES&C are well positioned to ensure that environmental best practice, developed over past years and highlighted in all 40 Sanctuary magazines, continues to be part of the MOD’s development processes and we look for ward to engaging with many exciting and challenging projects in the future. 100 Sanctuary 44 • 2015
CONTACTS SubmiSSiONS If you would like to contribute to Sanctuary Magazine or enter future Sanctuary Awards please contact Iain Perkins, Editor at: DIO-Sanctuary@mod.uk The Green hairstreak butterfly has been a recent colonist of the Barry Buddon Training Area © Bob McCurley Defence Infrastructure Organisation DIO manages the MOD’s property infrastructure and ensures strategic management of the Defence estate as a whole, optimising investment and providing the best support possible to the military. Secretariat maintains the long-term strategy for the estate and develops policy on estate management issues. It is the policy lead for sustainable estate. Safety, Environment and Engineering The SEE provides direct support to Project & Programme Delivery and Service Delivery by providing a front line support, a safety assurance function, technical oversight to ensure MOD/DIO discharges its duties and corporate responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, Environment Protection Act, other relevant legislations and Regulatory Articles; and also by providing the DIO intelligent client interface with industry. Environment and Planning Support (EPS) The EPS team is the focal point for all your environmental and planning needs and enquiries across the Defence Estate. It includes professional ecological, archaeological and planning suppor t to the MOD. Specialists and experts maintain communications and liaison with a large number of statutory and nongovernmental organisations. Environmental Support and Compliance Building 21 Westdown Camp Tilshead, Salisbury, SP3 4RS T he opinions e xpresse d in the maga zine are not ne cess arily thos e of the Minis tr y of Defence. Not withstanding Se c tion 48 ES&C Access and Recreation Tel: 01980 674782 of the Copyr ight, D esigns and ES&C Scottish Environmental Liaison Patent s Ac t 1988, th e Ministr y Tel: 01383 648042 of D efence reser ves th e right ES&C Forestry to pub lish author s’ literar y and Tel: 01980 674766 photo gr aphic contrib u tions to EPS Environmental Planning Tel: 01980 674665 Sanc tuar y in fur ther and similar pub lications ow ne d by the Minis tr y Energy, Utilities & of D efence. T his is subjec t to contrar y agreement, w hich mus t Sustainability Team b e communic ate d to the editor The EUS team is responsible for Energy in writing. Authors’ contributions Management, Energy Delivery and Payment, along with Water and Waste will b e ack nowle dge d with each Policy Implementation and Data across the and ever y p ublic ation . Maps in MOD estate both in the UK and Overseas. this publication are repro duce d from the Ordnance Sur vey Energy Management Team Tel: 0121 311 2017 map, by D efence Inf ras tr uc ture Energy Deliver y and Payment Team Organisation, with the permission Tel: 0121 311 3854 of the controller of Her Majes t y ’s Water and Waste Policy Implementation Stationer y O f f ice, and Data Team Crown Copyright. Tel: 0121 311 3733 Sustainable Development Support Tel: 01980 674866 Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to FMC Cap Infra prosecution or civil proceedings. FMC Cap Infra acts as the strategic Licence Number GD3189G. infrastructure planners and policy makers for Defence; taking a defencewide perspective on estate assets and CovER IMAgE: Cover image kindly construction, and advice for capability planning for estate and infrastructure. donated by David Kjaer: The shy and secretive stone - curlew looks out over a Including agriculture, forestry, natural and shallow scrape. The MOD has played an historic environments, access, planning and important role in conserving these birds strategic engagement, waste management, through a long standing partnership energy, and environmental protection, project led by the RSPB. As a result of Greening Government Commitments and MOD’s sustainability strategy. Contact: successful conservation measures delivered FMC-Cap-InfraPolSustEste@mod.uk through this project, which has been running since 1985, the stone - curlew population has increased back to around 350 pairs nationally from around 150 pairs in the mid 1980s. Read more on page 54. ES&C Ecology Tel: 01980 674820 ES&C Historic Environment Tel: 01980 674718 Defence Infrastructure Organisation This species was chosen to represent one of the many conservation successes on the MOD estate over the period in which Sanctuary has been produced. Sanctuary 44 • 2015 101
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THE SANCTUARY AWARDS The Sanctuary
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THE SANCTUARY AWARDS INDIvIDUAL AcH
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THE SANCTUARY AWARDS eNerGy PrOjecT
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FEATURES Having a sustainable MOD e
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FEATURES linked to the militar y us
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FEATURES Bog mosses find a new home
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FEATURES DIO EOC magnetometer array
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