Spring 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Spring Terrier.

As I bask in the spring sunshine (wishing I was outside!), I can tell you that this issue of ACES’ Terrier is full of informative and interesting articles. It kicks off with a set of legal and legislative enactments and proposals, all of which seem to be designed to make the lives of practitioners even more challenging.

In deference to the rural background of ACES’ President, Dan Meek (and an area I’m interested in), there are a group on environmental initiatives – particularly Biodiversity Net Gain – and I’m thrilled to include among them a fabulous case study written by an ACES member. And on that topic, there are a fair proportion of other articles written by members, as well as six branch reports, so thank you everyone for taking the time: we all want to share the experience of others.

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Please share ACES’ Terrier with colleagues - in hard copy and online www.aces.org.uk/library/.

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Betty Albon, Editor

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