Brockholes Nature Reserve

Lancashire, Manchester & Merseyside Wildlife Trusts.

Brockholes Nature Reserve opens in 2011.

The planning application was approved in August 2009 by Preston council. This will enable a Visitor and Education centre to be built on the reserve. It is located on the A59 next to the M6 and River Ribble on the site of a gravel pit.

The Trust is forecasting 250,000 visitors a year.

The North West Development Agency (NWDA) is using Newlands – New Economic Environments via Woodlands which has £59m to spend and has allocated a grant.

The plans which are costing around £8m include a stylish floating building, as it’s on the flood plain and in a water filled gravel pit, and a roofline below the tree height. The total size of the reserve is 106 hectares which is over 100 football pitches and over half of it is existing woodland.

Click here to go to the Wildlife Trust website to find out more.