Bradley Tooze

Have your say: A closer look at Norfolk’s Environmental Delivery Plan

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Rockland Broad, Yare Broads and Marshes SSSI, Norfolk. Credit: Peter Wakely

By Brad Tooze, Director, Nature Restoration Fund The Nature Restoration Fund provides a new way to support development while delivering larger-scale improvement for nature. It focusses on achieving an overall benefit for nature, rather than maintaining the status quo. The …

Reflections on the Nature Restoration Fund Business Readiness Forum  

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In this blog we look back on the first Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) Business Readiness Forum, held to help developers, planners and environmental stakeholders understand how the new fund will work in practice. We explain how the NRF and Environmental …

How Natural England is working with partners to improve rural flood resilience

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By Brad Tooze, Director for Greener Farming and Fisheries People might be less familiar with how our projects and partnerships help improve flood resilience. In this National Flood Action Week (14-20 October), we wanted to outline some of our partnership …

Peatland Discovery Grant launched to support the next waves of peatland restoration

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The importance of peat for nature and for our climate have been making the headlines in recent weeks. With growing interest in restoring our peatlands, I am delighted to report that we are launching a new Discovery Grant today (7th …