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30 April 2021

Community Benefits from Wetland Creation

Bramshot Farm Country Park, managed by Hart District Council and its Countryside Service, is a Site of Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) created to reduce visitor impact on fragile habitats within the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area in 2017. To enhance the area of habitat and visitor experience this project involves the creation of a series of new wetland ponds and improvements to the accessibility of this area through the creation of gravel footpaths and timber boardwalks including raised bunds.

The 4 new wetland pools, 2 wetland scrapes, footpaths and boardwalks WM Longreach are creating to enhance the visitor experience as well as environment and ecology at Bramshot Farm Country Park are taking shape.

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22 March 2021

Newton Park Enabling Works & Lake Maintenance

Newton Park Enabling Works & Lake Maintenance
Works involving the construction of an access road and local silt removal commenced this month on enabling works as part of the larger restoration project planned for late 2021.
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26 February 2021

Bronington #BogLIFE project

Despite the challenges of the poor weather, with it being the wettest December on record in 30 years, and January bringing a second ‘Beast from the East,’ WM Longreach have been able to reach key milestones in the construction of the culverts and open channel works on this Natural England bog restoration scheme. Importantly, to ensure easier ongoing maintenance, silt traps have been installed upstream of the culverts to minimise silt build up in the pipes. Downstream of the culverts pitching stone and a weir have been installed picking up the existing drain.

Despite wettest winter in 30 years works have been progressing well on this important lowland bog restoration scheme, with the completion of 400m of culvert works as well as, to date, 1km of the open channel works.

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20 January 2021

Newt Habitat Creation

Great crested newts require a mosaic of habitats. Through the Strategic Newt Licencing Scheme optimal habitat is being delivered through a combination of creating new ponds and restoring existing ponds currently unsuitable. WM Longreach are part of the framework delivering the scheme, developed by Telford & Wrekin Council in partnership with Natural England and Shropshire Amphibian and Reptile Group.
Pond creation and hibernacula constructed as part of the Strategic Newt Licencing Scheme to conserve and offer safe habitat for protected species working with Telford & Wrekin Council.
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05 January 2021

Tender success with Bath Spa University Lakeworks

Newton Park was first laid out by Capability Brown in 1761 and now forms part of the grounds for the Bath Spa University. The park, pleasure grounds, lakes, and woodlands have been undergoing continuous restoration since 1994 by the Duchy of Cornwall and Bath Spa University College with funding from the Countryside Commission, Countryside Stewardship, Forestry Commission, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. WM Longreach is proud to have been appointed to undertake the next steps in the Newton Park lake restoration, dam, and spillway repairs.

WM Longreach have been awarded the tender to repair the Lower Lake dam crest and spillway; and to carry out preliminary desilting work at the Upper Lake at Newton Park Lake, part of another magnificent, historical Capability Brown landscape

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14 December 2020

Historic Brunel Canopy Progress

Having completed some foundation works for the canopy at the historic station during the summer WM Longreach returned to carry out grouting for the columns and groundworks involving the reinstatement of topsoil around the site.

WM Longreach’s returned to Cholsey & Wallingford Railway station this month to assist with final touches to the canopy columns and site reinstatement, completing its restoration.  

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16 November 2020

Restoring the Marches Mosses

The Marches Mosses are Fenn’s, Whixall & Bettisfield Mossess and Wem Moss National Nature Reserve in North Shropshire. Collectively the mosses form the third largest lowland raised peatbog in the UK. Lowland raised peatbogs are one of the rarest habitats on earth with over 96% destroyed. Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales plan to restore 665ha of the Marches Mosses to make them healthy functioning eco-systems. As part of this work WM Longreach have been using a specialist low ground pressure machine to carrying out measures to raise water levels aswell as re-route the Bronington Manor Drain into re-profiled existing and new ditches cut around the northern edge of Fenn’s moss. The drain in its current position has been impeding restoration efforts.

As part of the Marches BogLIFE project WM Longreach are working with the Natural England on a drain diversion project, aiming to regain control of the hydrology and help the bog regenerate.

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23 October 2020

Newport Canal SSSI

Through sensitive dredging of further sections of the canal it aims to improve the water quality and restore the SSSI to its former glory protecting the rare aquatic plants that have been in steady decline. Throughout the project careful environment protection measures including silt traps are being put in place to minimise the impact on wildlife and water quality monitored.

With Phase 1 completed October 2019 WM Longreach’s return for phase 2 will complete the Newport Recovery Project protecting rare aquatic plants.  

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