Beautiful Natural & Glorious: Cheshire Wildlife Trust at Greenbooth

We want to champion the great people doing the hard work in BNG - the habitat banks. Because they're not all the same - and some are showing exactly how it's done properly.

Cheshire Wildlife Trust at Greenbooth is one of those.

Tucked into a secluded valley in the Peak District National Park, between Whaley Bridge, Buxton and Rainow, Greenbooth is being transformed into something genuinely wild. 

The Trust's plan is meticulous and ambitious: enhancing a grassland mosaic for bees, butterflies and pollinators; creating conditions for ground-nesting waders like curlew and lapwing, which already breed close to the site; establishing woodland and scrub along the steeper valley sides to provide food and shelter for tawny owls and mammals.

But what sets Cheshire Wildlife Trust apart isn't just the ecological ambition. It's the way they work. Restoring field boundaries to preserve the character of the landscape. Building genuine partnerships with neighbouring farmers and landowners as part of their wider Pennine Fringe living landscape programme.

Thoughtful, long-term, ecologically rigorous and rooted in the community around it.

This is what great BNG looks like. And we think it deserves to be celebrated.

Beautiful. Natural. Glorious.

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