Businesses team up to create new woodland

PROJECT BEING DRIVEN BY JLR AND THE NATIONAL FOREST

- By EVA MILLETT

GLOBAL businesses have joined forces with Jaguar Land Rover and the National Forest to create a new woodland, Unity Wood, in northwest Leicestershire.

The eight-hectare site, between Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe, will be planted with around 13,000 native broadleaf trees and designed with a reflection glade, wetland area and accessible trails.

The project aims to offer new green space for recreation and wellbeing, while protecting land that had previously been considered for housing development.

Unity Wood began when JLR's supply chain operations team approached the National Forest to mark a shared sustainability milestone.