UNITED KINGDOMLand Restoration Trust110 Birchwood Boulevard Birchwood Warrington WA3 7QH U.K. Email: enquiries@landrestorationtrust.org.uk Website: www.landrestorationtrust.org.uk Type: NGO Scope: national Interest in Forestry: peripheral Description The Land Restoration Trust will ultimately be an independent organisation, which funded through endowments, aims to restore derelict, neglected or under-used brownfield land and maintain it for people and nature in the form of publicly accessible green spaces. The Land Restoration Trust will provide environmentally informed, community-led, long-term regeneration solutions through local partnerships. Through its three year ‘pilot phase', the Land Restoration Trust will secure the restoration and management of some 1,500 hectares establishing partnership-working systems to enable it to expand its portfolio to 10,000 hectares by year 10 – an area the size of Coventry. The Land Restoration Trust was created by a partnership comprising English Partnerships, Groundwork, the Forestry Commission and the Environment Agency, the Land Restoration Trust is tackling enduring dereliction across England. |