Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDs) not only play a key role across many of our residential developments to mitigate flooding risk, but they also offer ecological value in supporting and attracting local wildlife. Meadfleet aim to ensure the effective function of SuDs across our sites, whilst increasing their biodiversity potential.
Our regional manager for the south east, Daniel Rushbrook, has been working alongside residents of Kingswood Park in Epping to create new habitat and increase the biodiversity of their residential SuDs pond. Residents worked hard to construct a variety of habitat piles to provide refuge and shelter for an array of wildlife – including reptiles, ground-dwelling mammals and invertebrates. Nearby tree maintenance provided a great opportunity to utilise oak that was left over for habitat provision.
Ponds are valuable to many bird species as they attract invertebrates as a natural food source, provide clean, oxygenated water to drink and offer an accessible place to bathe. Therefore, Meadfleet have donated bird feeders and nest boxes which have been added to the area to support visiting and local birds.
Meadfleet arranged a community winter cutting session where our area regional manager, contractors and residents worked alongside one another to carry out the required maintenance.
It is excellent to see the efforts of residents on our developments taking action for nature within their local area, and we look forward to witnessing the ecological benefits of this new diverse habitat at Kingswood Park.
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About Meadfleet
Meadfleet are a leading sustainable land-adopting management company. We have in-house ecologists with expertise in the BNG metric and are already applying the principles of Biodiversity Net Gain across our existing open space portfolio in England and Wales. Established in 1995, Meadfleet manage over 330 developments and 42,000 residential properties in our portfolio, with a strong balance sheet.
Meadfleet offers management of Biodiversity Net Gain delivery both on a managed development and on offsite areas, either via customer contributions or commuted sums. Our adoption model relieves developers of ongoing liabilities and management costs.
The Meadfleet model removes onerous liabilities from homeowners yet still encourages their input and engagement into the management of their local environment. We are committed to providing an excellent service to residents as demonstrated by our Excellent rating on Trustpilot and are members of The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPOS), offering customers free, independent redress should they feel it is required. We are happy to work with residents groups and positively encourage the creation of these on the developments we are involved with. We believe this opens an effective two-way dialogue between homeowners and ourselves.
As a land-adopting management company, Meadfleet take long-term responsibility of open space, building customer and community relations and implementing perpetual management and improvement plans. We take a holistic and independent approach to managing areas of open space for the benefit of all residents, biodiversity and the wider environment.