About Ecology Survey West Sussex

How this site works

Ecology Survey West Sussex is a referral service. You describe the site and what the council has asked for. With your consent, we pass the request to independent ecology consultancies covering your area, and they contact you with quotes. Whether to go ahead is your decision.

We do not carry out ecology surveys and we do not employ the ecologists who respond.

Referral fees

We may receive a fee from an ecology consultancy when we refer an enquiry to it. It does not mean we recommend any particular consultancy, and we cannot promise a response or a price. Consultancies are independent businesses, and any contract is between you and the one you choose.

Any contract is between you and the consultancy you choose.

Independence

Each consultancy is an independent business. None works for this site or trades under its name. We do not inspect their work or vouch for their qualifications, licences or professional memberships, so put those questions to them directly before you commit to a survey.

Our FAQ on qualifications says what some planning authorities expect.

No connection with councils or professional bodies

This site is not a council, Natural England, the South Downs National Park Authority or CIEEM, and has no link with any of them. Their names appear only as the source of guidance, lists or standards. The requirements described apply whether or not you use this site.

How we source our figures

Each legal point, date and figure on the site comes from a public source that we name, with the date we accessed it. Prices are published starting prices from UK firms, not quotes. Where something cannot be confirmed from a primary source, the page leaves it out or says so.

We review the pages periodically; the last review was November 2026.