Eaton Lane, Cheshire
The site at the end of Eaton Lane is a well loved community location. The plan is to enhance the site with species rich grassland, healthland, heritage orchards, hedgerows, woodland, parkland and ponds.
The site resides within the Local Planning Authority of Cheshire West and Chester and in the Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain National Character Area (#61).
Biodiversity Net Gain Units:
140 Grassland units
25 healthland and scrub units
13 woodland units
8 hedgerow units
2.4 lake units
Section 106 with Cheshire West due in Q2 2025
The establishment of a heritage orchard along with the planting of larger specimen parkland trees
Woodland enhancement and expansion
Scrubland, hedgerows and numerous ponds and natural scrapes
Species-rich site in the form of medium distinctiveness grassland
Technical consultants. Field Works. HMMP designed by FCPR.
National Character Area #61:
Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain
The Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain National Character Area (NCA) comprises most of the county of Cheshire, the northern half of Shropshire and a large part of north-west Staffordshire. This is an expanse of flat or gently undulating, lush, pastoral farmland, which is bounded by the Mersey Valley NCA in the north, with its urban and industrial development, and extending to the rural Shropshire Hills NCA in the south. To the west, it is bounded by the hills of the Welsh borders and to the east and south-east by the urban areas within the Potteries and Churnet Valley, Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands, and Cannock Chase and Cank Wood NCAs.
*Text from Natural England’s, Natural Character Area website. Link here.