Kitted out and ready to go!

And we’re off!

Lucy Hawker, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Dunsmore Living Landscape Scheme Manager, is working with our NCAP and Agriculture Advisory teams on a project which has been submitted into the Heidelberg Materials #QuarryLifeAward.

We had a great induction to Glebe Farm Quarry led by Quarry Manager Kingsley Molyneux. It those new to the quarry a chance to familiarise themselves with it and gain more insight to the potential ways we might help to influence local authority decision making and maximise biodiversity during and after restoration. The sun even shone for us.

A key link site, the quarry sits between the wildlife rich areas of Bubbenhall Wood and Meadows and Ryton Pools Country Park and the Weston and Waverly Woods to the south. Now in the last stages of restoration, the final restoration plan is for intensive farming which will require the loss of valuable habitats which have formed at the site over the years. We’re working with Smith’s Concrete to help create a proposal for changes to the final plan which will improve connectivity and increase biodiversity and carbon capture for many years to come.

A big thank you to Jops Hill for arranging the session and kitting us out with all our PPE.