‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing | Wildlife

ARRIVING AT The Kidbroke Village Housing Development in Greenwich one morning in early spring, the first thing you notice is Birdsong’s voice and delicious blossom scent. The geese are kindly honored at the distance.

This was one day the controversial basin, which is a dwelling property after the war that was demolished in 2009 to renew the region.

The harsh gray concrete has now been replaced by red brick blocks, which sits in connecting a “green corridor” Sotc on Park To the south with natural reserves in wildlife in Kidbroke Green and London Perbrok confidence In the north. Several apartments overlook new ponds and expanded wetlands in the Quaggy River, which were used for floods and expose local companies and property at risk. While some planning applications were stopped because the developers did not search for the bats or think about the rare news, this development merged the nature all the time, with the bats hanging from trees and wetlands for Newts directly next to the apartments blocks.

Blue and green spaces of good quality between the apartments include a stadium for children and seats overlooking wetlands. In the summer, the ponds are threatened with reeds, among which residents can discover Red Poning and Kingfishers. When he visited the trustee, he was full of people who enjoy spring day.

Anxiety about Nights and bats hinder the construction of new homes, according to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. However, 5,000 new homes are delivered alongside a paradise for a buttock. Wildlife Funds work closely with housing developers to get good quality homes, along with habitats of nature.

Other housing sites for the Troumpington Meadows include in Cambridgeshire, which was the potato field but now natural and housing. It is filled with wildlife including blue butterflies, Waxcap and Twittering Stonechats. Brest Hill, near Epsom, was converted from abandoned playgrounds in addition to some of the lands that were pre -developed to provide 15 new houses along with a completely new natural reserve in favor of wildlife and the local community, and the charming village of Garden Tadbul will be distinguished in Wildeh with an area of ​​68 acres of green spaces in addition to approximately 2,000 homes.

David Mony, CEO of the company says London Trust Wildlife Trust, “We have linked it to the plains of the flood and created sustainable urban drainage systems, then we worked with Berkeley Hums to get these apartments around the new wetlands.”

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which passes through Parliament, collects some requirements for developers to take into account nature, and will facilitate the construction of homes without this green infrastructure.

Money said: “The Treasury is leading this wrong sponge between homes and nature, but we are working with housing developers for years and years in harmony.

It also provides money and maintenance, to get wild spaces – it should not be cut or arranged. The beautiful herbal lands, in the summer, will be boring with a high -waist wild brilliant.

He said: “It was possible that this was not a green space. It was this green space. It was tangible, it was these arid lands in the region.

And news, it is clear, also, in the various ponds and sizes. “A person who does not want to have a wild life in his window, and his nature on the doorstep of their door, as you know, who does not want to hurt the dragonfly at the window when they do washing? People really have a really strong rapprochement with the natural world, especially when you have been founded, people live here and take care of it now, and volunteer with education.

The bats were also combined into the design of the estate. “We have built boxes, and there is also” fast brick “in which birds can nest in architecture. It can be done easily and easily.”

Old ruins and waste were used from the site to create piles of nature instead of going to the waste dump, in which wild flower seeds will spread. People will be able to sit on the small hills, get a picnic and look at the ponds.

Money feels control by the government: “We do not say let’s return all England to nature. But there are clear maps we can produce, and we say that this is the place where nature can go, and therefore housing can go, instead of this wild Western approach. Nature and housing can be weed together.”

It is concerned that the new rules will mean that developments such as Kidbroke will not be the rule, and developments that are worse without any nature are involved instead.

He said: “There will be some developers who will remain without a name, and who are happy with their hands with joy in what Rachel Reeves say, because they have never participated in the first place.”