 View across rubble roof to photo-voltaic ray and solar-thermal collectors.
Developers should comply with all relevant wildlife legislation and work with the grain of nature to enhance local biodiversity. Features must be retained within the development that are of importance for local ecology and every opportunity should be demonstrably taken to restore, enhance, add to and create habitats to entice wildlife into the area. The opportunities include:Living systems to clean water and air Abundant street trees provide shade, pollution-filtering, micro-climate control and improve the appearance of streetscapes. Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) can include grass swales, attenuation ponds, reedbeds for water treatment that can all provide valuable wildlife habitat when suitably designed.
Truly sustainable buildings that support local ecology resources Green/brown roofs and walls promote biodiversity, aid sustainable drainage and improve the thermal efficiency of buildings. Buildings can provide homes for wildlife as well as for people through the provision of artificial nest sites and roosting areas.
The River Tone and its tributaries (a County Wildlife Site and a major wildlife corridor), providing green corridor Maintaining significant blocks of undisturbed natural habitat, engineered solutions at limited
hard access points, and providing low-intensity lighting directed away from the water to ensure
the continued use of the river by bats and otters. Bio-engineering techniques can be employed to increase the diversity of habitats and landforms along the river. A substantial part of the riverside might be allocated as Local Nature Reserve, e.g. ecological parks.
Greenspaces and greenway links that bring the countryside into the town |
