Ecological survey and assessment for renovation works at Coleridge Cottage and Dunster Castle in West Somerset. Issues include bats, otters and Japanese knotweed.

Ecological assessment and design for Rowes Farm, Stoke Gabriel, Devon. Richard was the ecological expert witness at the public inquiry in 2010, where ecological issues included greater horseshoe bats and the South Hams Bat SAC, cirl buntings, dormice, badgers, reptiles…

Ecological survey and assessment of six churches in North Devon, in need of restoration. Bat surveys revealed use of the churches by at least five different species, requiring European protected species licences for the proposed.