The Summer work season for the SUNRISE Project is well and truly over – it has been a busy and successful season, but there is no break for the project team who are now busy preparing for work to come over the Autumn and Winter period. Over the summer the SUNRISE Project worked on approx…
Grassland enhancements are one of the 5 key themes of green space enhancement that the ERDF SUNRISE project is working towards. Project staff have been busy updating and fine tuning the originally submitted project proposals to turn them into workable plans, and working with other partners to get ready for the summer months when this…
March saw the conclusion of a large programme of woodland management undertaken by the ERDF SUNRISE project across three sites in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The changing seasons bring different different priorities to the SUNRISE Project work. Winter is the time for woodland management. Working closely with Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council’s Tree Officer and Landscape Manager a plan for…
Sixteen urban sites in North Staffordshire are to benefit from a share of £3.6 million of funding – to create new wildlife habitats, improve water quality and reduce flooding. The SUNRISE (Stoke and Urban Newcastle Rediscovering Its Secret Environments) Project, led by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and delivered in the main by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, will…
A 450-metre stretch of the River Trent through Staffordshire University has been re-naturalised – providing another link in the chain for a joined-up wildlife corridor though the heart of Stoke-on-Trent. A straight section of the river at the university’s Leek Road campus has been transformed so it naturally meanders through the site, offering a diverse…
History has been made following the completion of a huge new river channel that has changed the course of the River Trent through inner city Stoke-on-Trent. County nature conservation charity Staffordshire Wildlife Trust led the construction of the new route, which involved the excavating 40,000 tonnes of earth to create a gently meandering course which…
Work is beginning on an ambitious project to bring nature back to a stretch of river running through Staffordshire University’s campus in Stoke-on-Trent. A 400m section of the River Trent, which currently flows through an artificially-engineered straight channel in the nature reserve area of the campus, will be able to follow a more natural path…
Pool Dam residents are invited to learn more about plans to revitalise a wetland nature reserve that is at risk of drying out. Conservationists wish to carry out work at Pool Dam Marsh Local Nature Reserve, to restore the unique habitat and create homes for a greater variety of wetland wildlife. The proposals, which are…
Work has begun on a major project to improve and naturalise the River Trent by creating a new section of river channel at the site of the old Victoria Ground in Stoke-on-Trent. This project to restore the River Trent is one of 16 environmental enhancement schemes which make up the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund)…
PRESS RELEASE: Fish populations and wildlife habitats can thrive after planning permission was granted to create a new river channel by the site of the old Victoria Ground, the former home of Stoke City Football Club. Following a significant planning and design period, planning permission has now been granted which will allow the new channel…
The Summer work season for the SUNRISE Project is well and truly over – it has been a busy and successful season, but there is no break for the project team who are now busy preparing for work to come over the Autumn and Winter period. Over the summer the SUNRISE Project worked on approx…
Grassland enhancements are one of the 5 key themes of green space enhancement that the ERDF SUNRISE project is working towards. Project staff have been busy updating and fine tuning the originally submitted project proposals to turn them into workable plans, and working with other partners to get ready for the summer months when this…
March saw the conclusion of a large programme of woodland management undertaken by the ERDF SUNRISE project across three sites in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The changing seasons bring different different priorities to the SUNRISE Project work. Winter is the time for woodland management. Working closely with Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council’s Tree Officer and Landscape Manager a plan for…
Sixteen urban sites in North Staffordshire are to benefit from a share of £3.6 million of funding – to create new wildlife habitats, improve water quality and reduce flooding. The SUNRISE (Stoke and Urban Newcastle Rediscovering Its Secret Environments) Project, led by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and delivered in the main by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, will…
