image for illustration: Old quarry on Dalton Bank by Bobby Clegg, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
A former Lancashire quarry that once supplied materials to make bricks is set to be transformed into meadows and woodlands, reports LancsLive.
LancsLive writes:
The 29.5-hectare site in West Lancashire, previously a brick shale quarry, will be transformed into a ‘habitat bank’, a protected area to promote biodiversity, allowing developers to invest in the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units they need in order to build…
Landowner Ibstock Plc has entrusted stewardship of the site to Green Earth Developments Group (GEDG) for the 30-year programme of habitat creation and management. The project will be managed under a 30-year stewardship model…
