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£48,000 secured for Warrington landowners

05 November 2010

The Mersey Forest has secured more than £48,000 worth of grants in 2009/10 to improve woodlands and support landowners in Warrington.

 

Access for families

Popular bird-watching beauty spot Moore Nature Reserve will benefit from new paths to improve access for families and visitors, as well as receiving important woodland management work.

 

New woodland

Meanwhile in Culcheth, Ratcliffe House Farm is benefiting from a new woodland the size of five football pitches. The new woodland will not only provide excellent habitats for wildlife, as it grows it will also come to provide a sustainable woodfuel resource for the farm house, with the owners aiming over time to become energy self-sufficient.

 

Return on investment

The securing of nearly £50,000 in grants represents a two-and-a-half-fold return on the Council's annual contribution of £18,155 to The Mersey Forest, even before considering the range of other services provided by the Forest.

 

The grants were secured from the Forestry Commission's English Woodland Grant Scheme.

 

Photo: Brian Weatherup.




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