'Leaving nature and wild boar to do their thing'

A project using nature payments from developers aims to restore a swathe of wild landscape in sight of London's skyline to help wildlife and people.

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But the team behind the project warned that potential government changes to the developer payments scheme could “take away at the knees” the new market to secure much-needed private finance for restoring the UK’s struggling wildlife and habitats.

The 509-acre Harold's Park Wildland, in Essex, once the royal hunting ground of the last Saxon king Harold Godwinson, is being transformed from low-grade farmland and paddocks for a 96-horse stables that used to occupy the site.