Our team is converting the four, newly acquired arable fields that make up the BNG site into a variety of wetland habitats. To aid this transformation, dams, sluices and a water pump have been constructed to raise water levels across the site and create the new habitats. New ditches have also been created to help move water around the new land and will be available as BNG habitat too.
In the lowest lying field, the higher water levels will create fen habitat, lock carbon in previously drained organic soil, and create a high-priority habitat. Alongside appropriate grazing and cutting, the raised water levels will also transform other fields into coastal floodplain grazing marsh.
Elsewhere, another area will be enhanced from a conifer plantation to a wet woodland. This will allow for the natural replacement of non-native conifer trees by native species such as Common Alder, Elder, and willows.
