A partnership, first of its kind in the UK, is aimed at safeguarding the declining urban wildlife.
Homebuilder Barratt Homes and conservation charity RSPB have agreed to work together on future property developments in the hope to boost biodiversity, as 60 per cent of bees, birds, bugs and mammals in the city are at risk.
Using updated landscaping and gardening techniques Barratt Homes will try to boost natural habitats.
The partnership will also see Barratt Homes working with the RSPB to raise employee awareness of wildlife-friendly best practice across its sites in the region and throughout its supply chain nationally.
Welcoming the partnership, Mike Clarke, chief executive of the RSPB, said:
“With hundreds of thousands of homes needed across the country in the next few years, now is the time for conservationists and homebuilders to pull together to ensure the wildlife is boosted rather than ousted in the process.
“We are confident that many positive steps can be taken to build wildlife into new housing developments, giving nature and people a home and increasing quality of life, and all relatively simply and cheaply.”
