The Environment Agency confirmed that it has revoked Affinity Water’s licence to abstract water from Chesham Pumping station earlier this month, ending months of uncertainty over the future of the site. Affinity Water voluntarily turned off their pumps at the site in 2020 to improve flows in the River Chess following years of campaigning...
SmartRivers on the Hamble brook This year we conducted the first SmartRivers surveys of the Hamble, to both assess the current health of the brook and as part of baseline monitoring for planned restoration schemes. SmartRivers is a citizen science monitoring method run by Wild Fish, it involves kick-sampling to collect aquatic invertebrates with the sample sent off for laboratory...
The Chilterns National Landscape is seeking a garden designer to create a new, eco-friendly design for Chesham station garden. The award-winning garden, now managed by Chesham in Bloom volunteers, has opportunity to educate others in environmentally friendly and water conscious gardening while preserving the beloved features that make it such a special part of the...
I’m delighted to introduce the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Annual Report for 2024/25, which sets out not just the highlights of the last year but also presents a review of the Project’s achievements over the last five years. One of the highlights of the past year has to be the long-anticipated restoration of the Chess...
The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, which is hosted by the Chilterns National Landscape, has secured £1 million of investment from the HS2 Additional Projects Fund towards the ‘Mending the Misbourne’ programme.
The Chilterns National Landscape has received a £350k grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Not Bourne Yesterday: Chalk Stream Communities of the Chilterns, an exciting project that will restore and protect the Chilterns’ chalk streams. Made possible by National Lottery players, the project aims to restore and rejuvenate the Chilterns’ fragile chalk streams...
The Chalk Stream and Wetlands Meadows project to extend the habitat for local populations of water voles at Restore Hope, Latimer, has already begun but more needs to be done!
The Chiltern Society & Chilterns Conservation Board receive grant of £294,000 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund. The Chiltern Society and the Chilterns Conservation Board’s project: “Chalk Streams and wetland meadows: guarding the irreplaceable for people and nature” has been awarded a grant from the government’s £40 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund.# The grant...
Chalk Streams across the Chilterns are springing back to life after one of the most severe droughts on record.
