A huge thank you to our team of landscape consultants, clients and suppliers who have supported us this year.
We’ve loved working on new development projects, formulating plans for inspiring nature-rich landscapes and providing expert landscape and visual advice.
We’ve also had a blast visiting some old quarries as part of our continuing professional development; we are passionate about providing the best possible technical insights to support the services we offer.
Ticknall Quarries SSSI (pictured) was first notified for its biological interest in 1963. Consisting of a number of disused carboniferous limestone quarries in the Trent Valley, Derbyshire the resulting habitat mosaic includes semi-natural ash woodland, limestone grassland, open water and small flushes. Some of the rock faces and spoil heaps are very densely covered in hart’s-tongue fern Phyllitis scolopendrium.
All land within the SSSI is owned and managed by the National Trust, which is known as Ticknall Lime and Brick Yards, Calke Abbey and is open to the public.
We enjoyed visiting this site. There are many examples of publicly accessible ‘artificial habitats’ created on land previously altered by human activity and disturbance that can offer insights and inspiration for designers and developers.
Felstone Consulting Limited is a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute.
Background information from SSSI Citation 1001240 and National Trust Calke Abbey website.
