From solitary bees to putting biodiversity into South & South East In Bloom, community rewilding is pure gold for people and for wildlife!

Looking forward to getting back to finish the phase one of our biodiversity project with Bromley’s forward-thinking shopping centre The Glades.

The planting of elms and the subsequent return of the White-letter Hairstreak to the heart of a busy town is an urban rewilding success.

From world-class science and back garden safaris, Sea Eagle origami to magic tricks, flag-making, live music, dance school, carrot whistles and clay, animation and much more, Hullabaloo At Home turned Covid-19 adversity into amazements with a festival you can explore for ever more online!

Commissioned by The Common Space and Down to the Coast, this new report and blueprint is the next step in revitalising the first Henry Cotton-designed 1930s golf course, celebrating its layers of natural, cultural and military heritage and year-round appeal, and bringing a new coastal Biosphere Centre to tangible life in the Bay.

Arc and Artecology Ltd are working in London this week, bringing a bit of extra biodiversity to Bromley! The team will be installing Biototems, nest boxes as well as planting and sowing the first tranche of literally thousands of wildflowers. This is part of a long-term project we’re working on with The Glades, Bromley and owners, the investment

The Arc Group (both Arc and Artecology) work with clients, global investment management team LaSalle. Their Development Director, Andrew Derry, has just been in touch to say one project, Bourne Business Park, has been featured by the Better Buildings Partnership in the UK. http://www.betterbuildingspartnership.co.uk/lasalle’s-bourne-business-park-boosts-biodiversity-and-wellbeing Thanks to an inspired landscape architect at development stage and following

Signs of change! The Willow Walk is a 1km case study of shaping better places! Part-living field study guide, community project, urban rewilding and we believe a good example of how businesses can help to build natural and social capital on their doorstep.

While Artecology are out at sea with Marineff and half of Arc are out on dormice detail, Claire’s been staring at walls…looking at the team’s back catalogue & current work, old public art to Artecology biograffiti and bee walls and how we’re rethinking the concrete tide. Luckily she hit a wall and this blog ends before she got on to our #rewilding work! Walls the Album continues later this summer.