Royles Brook Restoration Project

The Royles Brook Restoration Project will take place at the King Georges Playing Fields in Thornton (Lancashire). The aim of the project is to create a series of wetlands, ponds, backwaters, swales and to re-meander a section of Royles Brook which flows through the middle of the site. Both physical and intellectual access to the site will be improved via the installation of a 300m of surfaced path and 25m of boardwalk. Both the path and boardwalk will be accessible for wheelchair users ensuring that a wide range of people will be able to access the site. We will also plant around 400 trees, creating areas of wet woodland and reintroducing black poplar to the site, a tree species which has become increasingly rare in the last 100 years.