PM 37 - Implement bird and bat box installation
- Code
- PM 37
- Measure
- Implement bird and bat box installation
- Description
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Bird and bat boxes provide suitable nesting and roosting locations for these species the built environment, where natural locations may be sparse or absent. New development schemes should incorporate installation, and boxes can also be retrofitted to existing housing or other buildings. Bird boxes should target red listed species such as swifts, starlings, house sparrows and house martins and comply with national planning policy guidance NPPG 017 and BS 42021 Integral Nest Boxes – Selection and Installation on New Developments, with a minimum of one nest box per unit.
- Wider environmental benefits
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Reducing climate change impacts Supporting health and cultural services
- Links to additional information and guidance
- Priority
- Nature-rich areas within the built environment are accessible, climate resilient, interconnected and biodiverse
- Priority description
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Whilst Herefordshire is a rural county the city, towns and villages are still important places that can be shared by people and wildlife. Many species have come to successfully coexist with people in urban settings, and many others must travel across the built environment areas when moving between their natural habitats. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the built up areas and settlements can enable species to move freely and even inhabit these areas in the long-term. The majority of these measures and supporting actions can apply on private and council land as well as to schools, business premises and hospital grounds, and between them these spaces can become an interwoven network for nature within our built environment.
- Mapped
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No