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Denham Country Park
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Denham Country Park Stage 1 Access and Habitats Improvements Update July 2025

Stage 1 completed; In 2024 and 2025 Buckinghamshire Council Country Park Team have been carrying out improvements to Denham Country Park following on from National Grid pylon relocation works in association with the HS2 viaduct, and after a long period when extensive areas of the park were inaccessible...
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Catastrophic impact of a THIRD runway at Heathrow

A THIRD runway at Heathrow will have a catastrophic impact on the Colne Valley Regional Park. It will devastate local communities and sever ecological connectivity between the Thames and the Chilterns across the Colne river catchment – an area of 1,000 square kilometres. We summarise the two development schemes, put forward by Heathrow and by Arora.
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Spotlight

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Why we need to protect the Colne Valley Regional Park

Act now to secure its legacy and potential!
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Heathrow expansion back on the agenda

The grim prospect of expansion and a third runway at Heathrow is back on the agenda, which poses a direct threat to the Colne Valley Regional Park, which has already borne the brunt of a variety of infrastructure projects – such as HS2 – that have fundamentally and permanently altered this precious landscape.
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Green Skills Team in Slough a Great Success

In partnership with SEGRO, Groundwork South have completed another Green Skills Team Project in Slough. This is a six-week programme in which unemployed individuals from the Slough area spend two days a week developing practical conservation skills and also attend sessions to improve their employability.
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Christmas around the Colne Valley Regional Park

This Christmas why not consider increasing quality time together, encourage outdoor activity or begin a journey of wildlife love and discovery. Take your family outside this December and celebrate Christmas traditions outside in nature.
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Mace Corporate Volunteers Make a Real Difference in Denham Woods

Corporate Volunteers from Mace Group have been continuing to support the Colne Valley Regional Park in the management of three ancient woodlands in Denham over a number of years. This year we are excited to be rolling this out to other nearby woods so we can improve more woodland habitat on a wider landscape scale.
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Works to improve access through Denham Country Park are now underway

November 2024 update; Works to improve access through Denham Country Park are now underway. Bridges across ditches are currently being replaced and preparations....
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Rural Reads

There is a wealth of books available to help people learn more about the environment around them, making exploration on the ground so much more rewarding. The following titles are recommended merely as a taster that will help you understand how and why your local patch of ‘England’s Green and Pleasant Land’ looks and functions in the way it does.
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