Strategic Investment in Landscape-scale Connectivity

National Highways and Network Rail have put forward a proposal to connect nature across road and rail infrastructure on a national level to aid landscape scale nature recovery. Together, they have produced a business case for strategic investment in landscape scale connectivity. Interventions funded by the business case could include:

  • Green bridges;
  • Wildlife underpasses;
  • Replacing old culverts with single span bridges;
  • Species-specific crossing features, e.g. dormouse bridges or amphibian tunnels.

In partnership with each district and the County local authority Ecology Group, five locations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have been identified for potential future strategic crossings in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. These could play an important role in addressing severance across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.