Housing giants to build bird nests and hedgehog highways

The country’s biggest house builders have signed up to a major new initiative to support wildlife on their new developments.The Homes for Nature commitment will see a bird-nesting brick or box installed for every new home built, as well as hedgehog highways created as standard on every new development taken through planning from September 2024.Twenty house builders, who build more than 90,000 homes a year, have signed up to the voluntary commitment.In addition to integrated nest bricks, bo