Pledge 5 - Create 550 hectares of woodland by 2030

We have planted 10,000 trees around our treatment works in Kinder, Derbyshire.

It’s another step towards our goal of planting one million trees on our estates by 2030.

Kinder water treatment works in Hayfield, Derbyshire is near Kinder Reservoir and famous beauty spot, Kinder Scout. The trees being planted are all native broadleaf varieties, such as oak, silver birch and rowan, which will help improve the landscape and biodiversity in the area.

In the Goyt Valley, we are restoring and enhancing priority habitats with particular emphasis on blanket bog vegetation communities. The restoration of these habitats will support the populations of important moorland bird species, including merlin, golden plover and short-eared owl. Sphagnum planting will help to increase the biodiversity of vegetation and will also contribute to improving water quality. Sphagnum also helps the peat retain more water on the moorland, which in the long term will help with flood management.

Unfortunately, weather and tree disease slowed our planting progress but we have two well established nurseries and plans for more and have identified hundreds of sites for new and ‘replanted’ woodlands.