We’re planting for the future, with a long-term commitment to create and restore woodland across the Estate. So far, 61,940 trees have been planted. This forms part of a wider ambition to plant 600,000 trees over the next 20 years, helping to lock up carbon, support wildlife and improve water management.
With multiple outcomes to deliver from our project, we successfully applied for funding from the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF) and the ELM Landscape Recovery Test & Trail project from DEFRA. These projects not only helped us to design a multifunctional woodland creation scheme but also delivered Estate wide habitat opportunity mapping. This final piece of the puzzle allowed us to identify suitable areas of the Estate for woodland creation, that would deliver maximum benefit for natural flood management, biodiversity enhancement, carbon sequestration and connection of existing habitats.
Thanks to this research and planning, we identified the Sole Beck site as the chosen location to deliver the project.
