How Can Housing Developers Make Properties More Nature Friendly?

• Reducing hard standing – for example looking at options which would reduce use of concrete such as mesh driveways (benefits to existing habitat and helps with flood management).
• Avoid blanket use of synthetic garden/recreational surfaces such as astroturf which do not allow nature to flourish.
• Add ‘wildlower and nectar’ seeds in the offering to new homeowners
• Introduce a managed community compost system.
• include rainwater harvesting solutions to conserve water to use for plants and gardens.
• Consider bat boxes and bat bricks which can be incorporated into buildings.
• Add tailored tubes in a building to allow bats and swallows to colonise.
• Look at establishing bird feeding stations and bird feeding community programme to ensure feeders are maintained and filled. The benefit is two-fold because it contributes to improved bird population as well as well-being of tenants.

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