Environmental corridor opportunity the bypass offers

As county bird recorder for Cheshire and Wirral ( and Secretary to the National Association), and involved in the initial environmental impact survey, I hope the subsequent planting aspects of the bypass are environmentally appropriate. The plantings need to provide local native plants and trees, deciduous and evergreen, which offer both sufficent flower and ground cover and subsequent fruit bearing in autumn. This is a unique opportunity to provide a corridor that will link woodlands and hedgerow systems in the mid west of the county to the eastern hills (as it connects to the bottom end of planted edge of the existing A34 bypass). This will benefit a wide variety of fauna, both invertebrate and vertebrate. It should not be underestimated the advantages such corridors create for insect, bird and mammal movements which mitigate for the continued erosion of Cheshires existing hedgerows and woodlands and increasing urban expansion.

i’m also wondering if a hedgerow will be planted along brook lane where all those lovely trees were removed.