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Latest News - September 2010
Power line diversion works near Peters Pit, Wouldham
Work by EDF and its contractors has recently commenced in the area near Peters Pit to facilitate the construction of the new roads for Peters Village. These works will take approximately two months and involve the underground diversion of some of the overhead power lines. The works will be inspected regularly and any disruption will be kept to a minimum.
January 2010
Following an independent tree safety report across the Medway east bank, contractors will be undertaking tree safety works across all Trenport land in this area during February 2010. Some works will involve traffic and pedestrian management and this will be provided by the appointed competent contractor. The work has already been agreed with Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council..
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Peters Village Kent
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Shirley Boards
Peters Village Project Enquiries
Trenport Investments Ltd
3rd Floor, 86 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6JD
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Trenport Investments Ltd
Trenport Investments Limited is the principal residential landholding and development company within the Ellerman Investments Group. The Group has been built up over the past 40 years and has an established track record of successful commercial and industrial developments throughout the UK.
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Conservation and the Environment
Situated within the heart of the Medway Valley, the new village and bridge are bordered to the east and west by the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and are surrounded by nature and landscape designations of international, national and county importance. The area is home to several Sites of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSIs, including the reserve immediately to the south of Peters Village.
The village and its nearby neighbours of Wouldham and Burham nestle within a rich, diverse and impressive natural environment much of which includes protected reserves and habitats. These range from native woodland and flower-rich chalk grassland to reed beds, riverside marsh, ponds and ditches. Home to many rare and uncommon native species of plants, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, the conservation and future preservation of our flora and fauna and the precious landscapes they inhabit is of crucial importance.
Kent Wildlife Trust, Kent's leading active conservation charity, continues to manage 400 acres across four SSSI sites (below) on behalf of Trenport. This management agreement has been in place for many years and ensures the sites' maintenance and protection. All this land is of at least national importance for its wildlife value and includes two Regionally Important Geological sites, or RIGs. Trenport also employs a full time conservation ranger who carries out a wide range of day-to-day environmental management projects, including the creation and monitoring of several wildlife ponds and hibernacula sites for the shelter of newts and reptiles.
Through Trenport's active membership of the Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership scheme, a four-year project to enhance wildlife, landscape, access and heritage within the 'Medway Gap', Kent Wildlife Trust is working to deliver additional enhanced conservation projects within three of the four SSSIs on behalf of Trenport.
In and around Peters Village there will be substantial tree planting and landscaping to help integrate the new village with its natural surroundings. This will add to the quality, character and value of the built environment.
Peters Village nature reserve
A site of almost 30 hectares, conservation work includes the maintenance of a 'newt fence' which runs the length of the reserve to prevent great crested newts from entering the development site. Wildlife ponds are cleared regularly to reduce shading, fenced grazing areas have been introduced for habitat management and invasive scrub is cleared and new scrub planted to aid bird nesting. A planted mound between the village and the reserve protects its ecology and ensures that the SSSI continues to be wildlife friendly. As well as the established newt population, the site is home to at least nine species of mammal including dormice and harvest mice. Grass snakes and very good numbers of uncommon butterflies including dingy and grizzled skippers, broad-leaved and white helleborines, man orchids and water crowfoot thrive at the reserve.
Culand Pits
Great Culand and Lower Culand pits are two large former chalk pits situated on the North Downs and to the south east of the new village. Due to the long period since the pits were last worked, natural colonisation of chalk-loving species has led to the development of a range of habitats, from chalk grassland through scrub to secondary woodland. Work is ongoing to control the scrub and invasive alien plants, install stock fencing and a water supply for livestock and undertake rotational coppicing. This has all enhanced the landscape and wildlife conservation within the pits. The sites support uncommon and rare species such as adders, silver-spotted skipper butterflies and chalk carpet moths and are now attracting other indigenous mammals and birds.
Burham to Wouldham Down
Lying on the scarp of the North Downs, this area is a rich mosaic of flower-rich chalk grassland, scrub and woodland. Here, work includes the maintenance of traditional hazel coppicing within the woodlands to benefit species such as dormice and nightingales, the control of non-native trees, expansion of the juniper population and maintaining the population of the nationally rare ground pine plant. Eight species of wild orchids are found on the reserve, the rare Adonis blue and silver-spotted skipper butterflies have been reintroduced and there has been increased breeding success in birds of prey.
Burham Marsh
A tidal reed bed on the banks of the River Medway, the Marsh is a prime spot to observe waterfowl and waders during autumn/winter months and for birds and plants during the spring/summer months. There are good populations of the nationally threatened water vole and it is only one of a handful of UK sites to support the rare marsh mallow moth and Cetti's warbler. Conservation work includes rotational ditch dredging to keep water courses open and maintain their value for wildlife and rotational reed cutting to maintain a variety of habitats as well as extending permissive footpaths for visitors.
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Reserve Fence line clearance (Kent Wildlife Trust)
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The rare Adonis Blue Butterfly (Dave Watson)
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Ecological survey work at Peters Pit
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Orchids at Peters Village Nature Reserve (Dave Watson)
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Scrub clearance near Burham (Dave Watson)
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Goats at Culand Pit (Dave Watson)
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Hedge maintenance (Kent Wildlife Trust)
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Wildlife Ponds at Peters Village Nature Reserve (Dave Watson)
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