Country Homes & Interiors

Homes for wildlife

While nothing beats wild habitats or natural green spaces, planners are increasingly factoring wildlife provision into the design of homes. In Brighton & Hove, planning laws require that new properties include special bee bricks and swift bird boxes within structural walls.

Sue Young, head of land use planning at The Wildlife Trusts, believes that nature should be ‘at the heart’ of our planning system to create

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