Ecological & Environmental Consultants
East Coast Ecology provide outstanding Environmental Services to clients throughout New South Wales.
We are a multidisciplinary team of Environmental Scientists and consultants providing Ecology and Bushfire Services across NSW. As Environmental consultants, we achieve the best environmental outcomes by providing our clients with accurate, attractive, easily-interpretable and timely reports.
Ecological Services
With over two decades of experience working in ecological services across public sectors and private companies, our expert, multi-disciplinary environmental consultant team meets all of your ecological needs.
Bushfire Services
Our experienced and qualified bushfire practitioners can assist you with your development applications and infrastructure development projects, offering strategic bushfire risk assessments, compliant building design recommendations, and code certification services.
What Our Environmental Consultants Can Help With
Determining environmental feasibility
Our environmental consultants work to help you understand the prospective impact that a planned development or work will have on the natural environment, allowing you to manage the risks and opportunities for the project.
We can deliver benchmark surveys and a range of ecological assessments as well as accurate site identification to assist with planning and stakeholder considerations.
Environmentally conscious designs
We can assess your proposed designs to ensure that they are compliant with state and council regulations, as well as provide nature-based solutions to optimise them for sustainability. Our ecological consultants can also create and implement Environmental Management Plans and Systems for your development project.
Obtaining developmental approval
Having an optimised environmental strategy can help your project streamline the process for securing developmental approval so that you can proceed with project commencement. Our consultants are experienced in collaborating with multiple stakeholders including local, state, and federal government parties, as well as building and infrastructure contractors.
Ongoing environmental performance support
We offer post-developmental approval monitoring and reporting to ensure that your project continues to meet the required environmental performance goals and commitments outlined in the proposal.
Leading environmental consultants
As an ecologist and environmental consultant team, East Coast Ecology provides expert advice on environmental science and a wide range of environmental issues. Our reporting delivers independent insights into a range of concerns across residential and commercial projects, as well as local, state, and federal government agency projects.
Over the years, our environmental consultant team has helped our clients to deliver thousands of Development Applications, State Significant Developments and State Significant Infrastructure projects across New South Wales. As such, we have the experience, resources, knowledge and insight to take on environmental assessment, planning, management and monitoring jobs of all shapes and sizes.
Our Principal Ecologists are Certified Practicing Ecological Consultants (CPEC) under the Ecological Consultants Association of NSW (ECA), highlighting our dedication and competency in delivering efficient ecological services that are recognised by private and government clients.
Combining ecological and bushfire services, we tailor each environmental solution to meet the unique demands of each of our clients. If you’re looking to engage the services of a leading team of environmental consultants who work in NSW, look no further than East Coast Ecology.
Ecologists committed to making a difference
East Coast Ecology offer expert Ecologist and Bushfire Consulting services throughout NSW, including Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Newcastle, Central Coast, South Coast, and regional NSW.
Our environmental consultant team works collaboratively with our clients to consistently create effective and innovative solutions to environmental challenges. Our diverse portfolio of clients ranges from planners, architects and builders, to new and existing landowners, major developers and finally, government agencies.
Focusing primarily on ecological and bushfire services, our environmental consultant team provides customised solutions to deliver outcomes that address key environmental issues. From one-off reports to development approval support, and whole-of-life project cycles – get in touch with East Coast Ecology to learn more about our professional environmental science services.
Contact us for a free quote and to discuss how we can assist you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does an environment consultant do?
An environmental consultant provides advice and guidance on a range of environmental issues. For us, environmental consulting means working with private businesses and organisations to help them understand and comply with environmental regulations when building.
Working with an environmental consultant means developing plans that avoid and mitigate the environmental impact of development.
An environmental consultant may be approached by developers, landowners, architects, city planners and state or local governments to provide development reports, environmental impact assessments, insights, monitoring and environmental project management strategies for a local area.
What services do you offer?
Our ecology services include:
Planning, Environmental Assessments and Approvals: Including Environmental Impact Assessments, Ecological Constraints Assessments, Flora and Fauna Assessments, Biodiversity Development Assessment Reports, Review of Environmental Factors & Test of Significance (5-Part Tests).
Environmental Management Plans: Including Vegetation Management Plans, Biodiversity Management Plans, Integrated Bushfire & Vegetation Management Plans, Nest Box Management Plans, Flora and Fauna Management Plans & Koala Assessment Reports.
Monitoring Services: Including obligatory monitoring for Vegetation Management Plans and general monitoring for Flora and Fauna, Environmental Management & Koala Management.
Biodiversity Offsetting and Stewardship Sites: Including Biodiversity Offsetting, Biodiversity Offset Credit Calculations, Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement (BSSAR, TFD and Management Plan), Biodiversity Values Map Review, Biodiversity Assessment Methodology explanations.
Our bushfire services include:
Integrated Bushfire & Vegetation Management Plans
Where do you service?
East Coast Ecology services the entirety of New South Wales. Our environmental consultants operate from Western Sydney to Penrith, Greater Sydney, Northern Beaches, Liverpool, Blue Mountains, Newcastle, Central Coast, Port Macquarie, North Coast, Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla, Hunter Valley, Wollongong, Illawarra, Southern Highlands, Central West, Yass Valley, Hill Tops, Upper Lachlan Shire, Goulburn and the rest of regional New South Wales.
What are Biodiversity Development Impacts?
Biodiversity impacts refer to the effects of proposed developments on native flora and fauna. These environmental impacts include (but are not limited to):
Tree or vegetation clearing for the proposed development footprint and air quality
Clearing of Asset Protection Zones (APZs) and any other additional bush fire access requirements required to comply with Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2019
Construction impacts such as noise, vibration or clearing for machinery access, material and waste stockpiles
Road or driveway construction, installing services and stormwater infrastructure, on-site sewage management (OSSM) tanks and dispersal areas, changes in hydrology, and
Indirect impacts to biodiversity such as soil disturbance, runoff, wastewater disposal, artificial lighting, or increases in human activity and noise
How long will it take for an ecological report or assessment to be completed?
A rough timeline estimate for reports to be completed will fall within a window of 2 weeks to 4 months.
There's no exact average time for an ecological report to be completed as it will depend heavily on factors such as the size of the planned area, the complexity of the development project, and the presence of protected wildlife.
Our ecologists will keep you informed of the progress of the required report and work closely with you to deliver it to meet your project timeline. We recommend that developers contact our team as early as possible to cater for unexpected delays or issues down the line.
Get in touch with our friendly team today to discuss your next project and our environmental consultancy services in NSW.
PHONE: 02 7813 6119
EMAIL: admin@ececology.com.au