Making a ‘Swift’ Decision to Support Nature

Making a ‘swift’ decision to support nature

A bid to encourage developers to support declining cavity-nesting bird populations in new build homes has been unanimously backed by councillors.

Council encourages developers to install 'nesting bricks' for endangered swifts

Swift bricks, which are designed with a hole for birds to enter and rear their young, are being touted by Waltham Forest as a way to save swifts and house sparrows, reports Marco Marcelline A swift soaring through the sky, Credit: Waltham Forest Council Waltham Forest Council is set to encourage developers to include “swift bricks” in new homes in order to protect endangered birds that rely on holes and cavities in buildings to nest. The provisi…