Cramlington Habitat Bank

County: Northumberland
Local planning authority (LPA): Northumberland County Council
National Character Area (NCA): South East Northumberland Coastal Plain

Birds-eye render of Cramlington Habitat Bank before restoration

Very high distinctiveness habitats

Fens (upland and lowland)

High distinctiveness habitats

Ponds (priority habitat)
Wet woodland

Medium distinctiveness habitats

Mixed scrub
Other neutral grassland
Other woodland; broadleaved
Willow scrub

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Habitat Bank overview

Less than ten miles from the city of Newcastle – and right beside the iconic Lady of the North, Northumberlandia – we’ve created Cramlington Habitat Bank, a site designed to provide a home for a wide range of native flora and fauna across more than a hundred acres.

BNG delivery

At every Habitat Bank, we always look at the land to determine what can be achieved from the very start. Our biodiversity experts assess the soil, wildlife, vegetation, geology, hydrology, management history, and connectivity across the local landscape.

We take a baseline for each Habitat Bank using the statutory biodiversity metric. We carefully select the best possible habitats for us to establish so we can deliver and demonstrate measurable biodiversity gains over time.

Neighbouring LPAs
Durham County Council
North Tyneside Council
Newcastle City Council
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Cumberland Council
Northumberland National Park Authority
Westmorland and Furness Council

Neighbouring NCAs
Tyne Gap and Hadrian’s Wall
North Northumberland Coastal Plain
Mid Northumberland
Tyne and Wear Lowlands

Our vision

Sitting within three miles of ten different statutory designated sites of national and regional importance for nature, Cramlington Habitat Bank has been specifically designed and placed to help connect habitats across the landscape.

These sites include the Arcot Hall Grasslands and Ponds Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – one of the largest lowland species-rich grasslands in the North East, a site registered for its significant importance for invertebrate conservation. They also include the Brenkley Colliery and Meadows Local Wildlife Site (LWS) and the North Brenkley LWS – the last of which is a site of particular interest in terms of birds and reptiles where a number of great crested newts have been recorded.

Alongside these newts, and other amphibians like common toad, we hope to see a range of species make their home at Cramlington Habitat Bank. We’ve designed habitats to encourage mammal species (like European hedgehog, brown hare, common pipistrelle, and brown long-eared bat) and bird species (like lapwing, skylark, dunnock, linnet, snipe, oystercatcher, woodcock, and meadow pipit) to grow in abundance.