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29th July 2020

Rare species spotted at Rabbit Ings Country Park

A rare beetle usually found near the south coast of England has been spotted at Rabbit Ings Country Park in Barnsley

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Ice Cream van at Countess of Chester Country Park

28th July 2020

The Land Trust offering free one month license to ice cream vans and coffee carts on selection of green spaces

The Land Trust, is offering a free one month license for ice cream vans and coffee carts on a selection of its sites, as the national land management charity seeks to help small businesses get back on their feet following the impact of Covid – 19.

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No more prizes for Value You: how a broader range of values is influencing new development

In the second of a series of blogs, Land Trust Head of Business Development, Trevor Adey, discusses the importance of being able to measure the value of green spaces and says that developers who think about a broader set of values will continue to attract investors, build stronger reputations and create and preserve better places.

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22nd July 2020

The Land Trust calls on property developers to change approach as £2.5m of social value created on the charity’s service charge sites in 2019-20

National land management charity, the Land Trust, has called for property developers to consider green space a vital component of all new developments, and to put a long term plan for stewardship in place at the commencement of a development, to maintain these areas for the long term benefit of homeowners and the wider community.

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The Land Trust Blog

8th July 2020

BLOG – More street trees please: four simple steps to durable delivery

The suburban housing estate where my parents live in Newcastle was built back in the 1960s, with one new tree per house being part of the marketing campaign: a nice little developer’s sales pitch that has clearly fallen out of favour in the intervening period. But now they are back!

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