Local residents on a Vision Project walk in Bretton Clough

Vision Project

The Peak District National Park Authority's Vision Project is a government-funded project, which aims to monitor and encourage biodiversity in  designated areas.  Great Hucklow and Grindlow fall within the Vision Project area.  Local residents are actively involved in the project, through attending walks and talks, undertaking wild flower surveys on designated road verges, and by clearing scrub to encourage biodiversity.

The Vision Project organised the recent thinning of scrub in the Nightingale Centre's fields above where the Great Hucklow holiday homes used to be.  These fields are being managed through an agri-environment scheme  to conserve the unimproved grasslands. They are important for wild flowers including knapweed, ox-eye daisy, sedges and rushes.  To the east, specialised metalliferous vegetation is found including the nationally rare spring sandwort (leadwort), a Derbyshire speciality. Hawthorn scrub can spread rapidly, reducing the diversity of wild flowers. Cutting back the scrub on this site aims to enable the mix of wildflowers to flourish.

For more information on the Vision Project and how you can get involved, contact the Peak District National Park Authority, tel. 01629 816397.

See also the Vision Project article on the Derbyshire Biodiversity website.

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