Environment
Kingsway Business Park has been planned and developed with exceptional sensitivity to the environment. Set in an attractive, naturally rolling landscape, the Park includes areas designated as sites of biological importance as well as areas of newly-created woodlands and walkways all of which will combine to create a valuable amenity for employees and visitors.
These amenities include a 30 hectare (70 acre) natural "corridor" space which protects and enhances the existing diversity of natural habitats including willow scrub, grasslands and the wetlands of Stanney Brook.
Cycle and bus routes have been carefully planned to allow for, and promote, green travel to and from the site as well as encouraging visitors to make the most of the natural habitat. You can learn more about travel to, from and around the park in Travel Planning.
Stanney Brook
A key feature of Kingsway Business Park is that it includes a 30 hectare (70 acre) parkland area which will evolve as a natural "corridor" to both enhance the existing natural habitats and create new woodlands and walkways. Across Stanney Brook Park and the Park as a whole it is estimated that 11,000 trees will be planted to add to what is already an attractive, undulating landscape.
At the heart of the Park's diverse mix of grasslands, willow scrub and wetlands is Stanney Brook which meanders almost from one end of the Park to the other. It links a series of large ponds at the southern end to a designated site of biological importance towards the north of the development and will provide a relaxing retreat as well as an important environmental feature to both employees and the general public.
Sections of Stanney Brook were inhabited by a rare species of water vole (Arvicola Terrestris). In order to maintain this population new habitats are being created within Stanney Brook Park to provide a secure home for the water voles as the development progresses. As these new habitats take several years to mature, Chester Zoo is providing the ideal temporary home before the voles can ultimately be re-introduced to Kingsway. Likewise, a rare species of mud snail has been found on the site and these are being kept at Martin Mere, before being re-introduced on to the Park.