Recently, on a beautiful warmer than average September day (poignant given the nature of the event), we had the pleasure of hosting leaders and members of our local authority - Stratford upon Avon District Council. Following the change in local government earlier this year, members of the Alscot Estate team, including Emma Holman-West and Jack Kennedy, introduced the Alscot Biodiversity Net Gain Project and how Alscot is contributing to deliver the UK’s climate change ambitions.

Toby Gibbs, ecologist and environmental consultant, along with Jonathan Thompson, joined with us to deliver the local project and the importance of BNG and how this and other environmental incentives integrate with development, commercial enterprise and farming, to conserve and enhance nature, maintain food production and keep the ecomomy turning.

The group took part in an open discussion and took in the first phase of Alscot's BNG site on foot, which is now in it's fourth year of a minimum 30yr monitored contractual term with Warwickshire County Council.

The site is dedicated to nature conservation by improving natural grasslands to enhance habitat creation.
Due to the success of the project, Alscot are about to embark on a second phase that introduces a larger section of land that connects to phase one. This creates an ecological network that operates more naturally and effectively.

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