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Chesterwell Open Spaces - a flourishing natural environment for people and wildlife

Special amenity areas have been created across Chesterwell where wildlife will thrive and residents can enjoy the benefits of the natural environment. These include woodland, ponds, wildflower meadows and walkways. A children’s play area and picnic site are linked by a network of footpaths to enhance your outdoor adventures!

Children’s
Play Area

The proposed children’s play area will have both built and natural features that allow children of all ages to enjoy play, exercise and sensory experiences in a safe outdoor setting.

Childrens play area

Chesterwell Wood

The original woodland area has been enhanced by scrub clearance and tree planting. It is being managed to ensure new and diverse habitats continue to develop for wildlife of all kinds: for example insects such as beetles and spiders, birds, mammals, mosses, fungi, flowering plants, and lichens.

Chesterwell wood

Wildflower Meadow

The wildflower meadow produces flowers from April through to October. The nectar-rich plants help support the dwindling populations of pollinators that we depend on to pollinate our food crops: these include butterflies, moths and bees. The tall grasses create cover where birds and small mammals can forage safely for food.

Wildflower meadow

Wildflower Walk

Wildflower walks provide safe corridors that link different areas including verges, gardens and hedgerows, allowing wildlife to move through the landscape to find food and to breed. The nectar-rich flowers help support the dwindling populations of pollinators that we depend on to pollinate our food crops: these include butterflies, moths and bees.

Native Hedging Planting List

Hawthorn / Hazel / Blackthorn / Dog Rose / Spindle / Field Maple

Wildflower walk

Ponds

Ponds are a haven for wildlife providing food, a watering hole, bathing spot and breeding site for local birds, bats, insects such as dragonflies, and amphibians including frogs and newts. Marginal plants include Reed Mace, also known as Bulrush, Common Reed, and Sedge.

Ponds

Wildflower Planting List

Black Medick

Colour: Yellow
Flowers: May - Oct

Meadow Buttercup

Colour: Yellow
Flowers: May - June

Red Campion

Colour: Pinkish Red
Flowers: April - Sept

White Campion

Colour: White
Flowers: May - Oct

Night-flowering Catchfly

Colour: Mauve
Flowers: June - Aug

Wild Clary

Colour: Violet Blue
Flowers: May - Aug

Cowslip

Colour: Deep Yellow
Flowers: May - Aug

Field Forget-me-not

Colour: Pale Blue
Flowers: May - July

Foxglove

Colour: Dark Red
Flowers: June - Aug

Common Knapweed

Colour: Red Purple
Flowers: June - Sept

Goatsbeard

Colour: Yellow
Flowers: June - Sept

Greater Knapweed

Colour: Red Purple
Flowers: June - Sept

Lady’s Bedstraw

Colour: Yellow
Flowers: June - Sept

Musk Mallow

Colour: Mauve
Flowers: May - Sept

Oxeye Daisy

Colour: White
Flowers: May - Sept

Hoary Plantain

Colour: Green Brown
Flowers: May - Sept

Ribwort Plantain

Colour: Green Brown
Flowers: April - Sept

Salad Burnet

Colour: Browny Red
Flowers: June - Sept

Selfheal

Colour: Violet Blue
Flowers: June - Sept

Common Sorrel

Colour: Brown
Flowers: May - July

Common St John’s-wort

Colour: Yellow
Flowers: June - Sept

Wild Carrot

Colour: White
Flowers: June - Oct

Yarrow

Colour: White
Flowers: June - Oct