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School playing field to be rescued
The Mersey Forest in partnership with BTCV is mounting an attempt to rescue Halewood CE Primary's playing field from flooding, using water-absorbing trees and swales to give kids back their play space and provide wildlife habitat at the same time.
At present, following wet weather the playing field is unusable for long periods as it becomes easily waterlogged and takes a long time to dry out. The excess water also drains on to the neighbouring housing estate - meaning local residents have problems with boggy ground within their gardens. The Mersey Forest's approach is planned to help both parties.
Hedges and wet-loving trees are being planted to soak up water, providing a low cost solution that also delivers pleasant landscaping, areas for learning and habitat for wildlife. The approach being used is drawing on techniques used in sustainable drainage systems, or SuDS for short, which also include creating shallow grass-lined ditches or swales which link together, holding and channelling water, allowing it to soak into the ground and away from areas where the children play.
Climate change funding
Funding for the work has come from ForeStClim, an EU-funded climate change project. As part of ForeStClim, The Mersey Forest works with partner organisations in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to develop forestry strategies to help local communities adapt to projected climate change.
The kind of sudden rainfall which is currently problematic at Halewood is expected to occur more frequently in coming decades due to climate change, and so pilot projects such as this to make our green spaces more resilient will be increasingly important.
