Hazel Murrells

Bio

Hazel is the Regional Ecology Director for Tyler Grange’s northern region, encompassing the Manchester and Birmingham ecology teams, and along with her counterpart in the south is responsible for leading Tyler Grange’s ecology team. This includes line management, project management, financial reporting, production of fee proposals, resourcing, client management and provision of advice. Hazel is also responsible for undertaking quality assurance of survey data and reporting within the team but also producing a range of reporting from constraints and opportunities briefing notes to detailed ecology chapters for Environmental Statements as well as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA). ​

Hazel has over sixteen years’ experience in environmental consultancy working on projects throughout their lifecycle from pre-planning surveys and design input through to ecological supervision during construction.

Hazel is an experienced ecological surveyor with a license to survey great crested newts in both England and Wales but also has skills in a range of other protected species and habitat surveys. ​

Hazel has experience of working on large scale road schemes, rail improvement schemes and flood defence schemes and has manged the ecological inputs on a range of schemes including residential development, commercial/mixed use development, renewable energy, water infrastructure including pipelines and highways schemes. This has included co-ordinating with large multidisciplinary team and managing a wide range of stakeholders.​