Olivia Mckechnie-Downing
Senior Ecological Consultant
Senior Ecological Consultant
Olivia is a spirited and dedicated Senior Ecologist, with excellent attention to detail displayed throughout the variety of ecological reports and surveys that she undertakes within her role.
Olivia also is a highly proficient project manager, with excellent communication and organisational skills.
She has experience managing a wide variety of projects, from redevelopment works of Grade II listed buildings within a working parkland and farming estate in the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, to remediation works at an aggregate extraction site in rural Kent.
The size of projects managed vary from small residential developments to large scale multi-phase developments.
Olivia also gained valuable experience of large-scale infrastructure
projects whilst completing protected species survey for the HS2 scheme. During her time at Tyler Grange, and following the new legislation regarding Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Olivia has formed part of the team working to promote BNG compliance and provide specialist advice to landowners and developers.
Olivia has honed her BNG knowledge, building on a strong foundation of the workings of the DEFRA metric, to allow her to confidently and effectively advise clients on the possible ways to navigate and capitalise from the emerging legislation.