Hi just a note about a proposed Nature Reserve there is a planned date for the site visit/walk around to have a look at the site and discuss management proposals and other issues, will take place on Thursday 30th May. We will meet at 19:30 at the front of Stand URC. Stand Lane Chapelfield. Whilst helping with a litter pick on Thursday May 23rd noticed a young Mistle Thrush being fed, Coots with Young. Also willow warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Garden Warbler.
New Local Nature Reserve PLanned in Radcliffe Press Release
'Plans are being drawn up to turn land which belonged to the former Radcliffe Paper Mill into the boroughs newest Local Nature Reserve.
The site is next to where Barratt Homes built the Woodland Chase estate, and gave Bury Council a sum of money for wildlife improvements as part of the development.
Local people are now being asked whether they would like the site to become a nature reserve, at a public meeting on Thursday 22 November at Stand United Reformed Church, starting at 7.30pm. There will be a short presentation, after which people can have their say and possibly form a community group to support the project.
Since the completion of the Woodland Chase housing development, there are very few features that point to the industrial past and that of the paper mill. There are two remaining water bodies: the larger is a triangular shaped reservoir which has been recorded as a Grade B Site of Biological Importance (SBI) for the aquatic plants that can be found within it. The site also has some areas of mature woodland and amenity recreational grassland.'
The site has among other things plants such as Water Violet. It is located between Stand Lane and Outwood Road
A lot of other work is also to be done at nearby Close Park around ther chuch and tower and wildlife enmhancement with planing and ponds towards the river.
