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Largest community woodland in the East to be created in Essex alongside Lower Thames Crossing route
Highways England has today (Wednesday 2 June) announced a new woodland the size of 135 football pitches will be planted in partnership with Forestry England, alongside the route of the proposed Lower Thames Crossing.
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2 June 2021
The woodland at Hole Farm near Great Warley, Brentwood in Essex is at the heart of the project’s plans to boost the wildlife and increase habitats in the area. Under Forestry England’s care, the 100-hectare site will become home to around 150,000 new trees and provide homes to thousands of native species, from mammals to invertebrates and birds to fungi.
Streamlining governance, speeding up planning decisions and designing a variety of options have been identified as three key project accelerators needed to achieve the government’s Project Speed aims.
A new report from the Nichols Group –
The Nichols Vision Report – sets out the three accelerators in a Framework for Project Speed .
According to the report, the accelerators could prove essential achieving the government’s agenda to build back better, greener and faster.
It suggests that the bureaucracy of project approval should be reduced, the scope of Development Consent Orders expanded and multiple construction options considered (full details below).
The Nichols Group’s ‘Framework for Project Speed’ is made up of the following three accelerators: