
Chester — Cheshire
LPA: Cheshire West and Chester
NCA: Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain
Less than 30 miles from Liverpool, our Ellesmere Port Habitat Bank covers around 30 hectares of land where our work is helping to connect habitats between Bridge Trafford and Mickle Trafford.
In collaboration with the landowner, we’ll be restoring the landscape and using sustainable livestock grazing to help local ecosystems thrive.
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.
Biodiversity Units from this Habitat Bank are ready to purchase now, subject to availability. Provided alongside expert planning support, these Biodiversity Units offer an effective local off-site BNG solution for the Cheshire West and Chester LPA and the Mersey Valley NCA.
Adjacent LPAs | Adjacent NCAs |
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Wirral Council | Wirral |
Shropshire Council | Merseyside Conurbation |
Liverpool City Council | Manchester Conurbation |
Cheshire East Council | Lancashire Coal Measures |
Halton Borough Council | Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain |
Warrington Borough Council |
At our Ellesmere Port Habitat Bank, we’re transforming the previous pasture and arable fields into a rich mix of habitats including native mixed scrub, wildflower grassland, and ponds.
Each habitat aims to encourage important flora and fauna to flourish – from the native woodlands designed to support bats, newts, and badgers, to the fruit tree orchards that we hope will attract pollinating insects, to the ponds that will become home to a variety of aquatic vegetation and amphibians.
Our ecologists plan for this site’s floodplain marshland is to support bird species of special conservation status as the local area is noted for breeding and wintering birds.
We are also enhancing the grassland to become far more species-rich while extending the existing woodland to become a suitable haven for a diverse range of wildlife. We are especially keen to attract protected bird and invertebrate species through our site’s new habitats.
Find out the cost and availability of Biodiversity Units from Ellesmere Port Habitat Bank.
LPA: Cheshire West and Chester
NCA: Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain
LPA: West Lancashire Council
NCA: Lancashire and Amounderness Plain