CLIENT:
Cork City Council
PROJECT NAME: REPORT TITLE:
Cork City Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
SEA Environmental Report
Name and Qualifications
Project Role
Relevant Experience
Dublin Institute of Technology, 2012
Management Plans and Systems, Environmental Auditing, and Air Emission Assessment. Richard has excellent experience in planning and environmental assessment for various types of development including waste facilities, quarries, renewable energy development and tourism development. He has experience project managing and coordinating completion of the suite of SEA and AA deliverables for 25 Local Authority Climate Action Plans and multiple Local Area Plans and Local Economic and Community Plans. Andrew has over 10 years’ experience as a professional ecologist. He is responsible for all ecological work from project design and implementation to the preparation of reports. Interaction with key stake holder and statutory bodies such as the NPWS and the EPA is a vital part of this role. His role is diverse and complex working at both plan and project level. He has been the principal ecologist responsible for the preparation and co-ordination of SEA and AA for many statutory land use plans; as well as EcIAs, EIARs and AAs of Projects. Andrew has comprehensive technical knowledge in ecological assessments and legalities of the planning processes to facilitate streamlined delivery of assessments. Andrew is an experienced ecologist who holds four national species derogation licenses for bats (photography & roost disturbance), otters and badgers. Andrew has authored the NBDC Identification Guide to Irelands Bats and the Identification Guide to Regulated Invasive Plants. Andrew is an experienced botanical specialist with a focus on Annex I grassland habitats, having worked on the translocation of lowland hay meadow [6510] containing the floral protection order species meadow barley (Hordeum secalinum). Eunice is an Environmental Scientist on the Circular Economy and Environment team at Fehily Timoney and Company. Eunice holds a First-Class Honours BSc in Environmental Science and Sustainable Technology from Munster Technological University. Eunice has been involved in a variety of diverse and challenging projects since joining FT covering key aspects of remediation, baseline emission inventories, amenity development, environmental assessment, desk-based studies, and monitoring. She has been responsible for supporting the delivery of SEA and AA documentation such as Scoping Reports, Environmental Reports, Screening Reports and Statements, for 25 Local Authority Climate Action Plans as well as multiple Local Area Plans and Local Economic and Community Plans.
Chartered Environmentalist, The Society for the Environment
Andrew Torsney
AA & Biodiversity Team Lead
PhD, Ecotourism and visitor Behaviour Analysis, Trinity College Dublin, 2018 – Present (Part time) MRes Biodiversity and Conservation (Hons.), University of Leeds, UK, 2011 - 2012
BSc Zoology, University College Dublin, 2007 - 2011
Eunice Wong
Project Support
B.Sc. First Class Honours, Environmental Science and Sustainable Technology, Munster Technological University, 2022
3.4.3 Difficulties Encountered No significant difficulties were encountered during the undertaking of the assessment.
www.fehilytimoney.ie
P23-206
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