The Lancashire Wildlife Trust got funding to turn the gravel workings by the River Ribble and M6 into a wetland and has now received more funding to create a Visitor Centre which will open in 2010. The official name is the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve although I don’t think it is open at the moment. Driving by the other day it has started to look like a more pleasant area that birds would use, although being next to the motorway is a bit of a blight.
The gravel diggers are now working on the other side of the motorway, the west side, and it looks a real eyesore considering it was a nice bit of the flood plain.