Groundwork NE and Cumbria have submitted planning permission with both Newcastle and Sunderland councils to restore the banks of the rivers Tyne and Wear .
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00:00Groundwork North East in Cumbria has applied to both Newcastle and Sunderland Councils for planning permission for two projects
00:06that will help to protect and restore the natural habitats of the banks of the Tyne and Wear.
00:10Specialist marine and ecological contractors appointed by Groundwork North East in Cumbria
00:15plan to install brushwood bundles secured with chestnut stakes along the foreshore.
00:19The installation and planting should slow the river flow, remove sediment and allow for mud, sand and silt to build up, burying the structures,
00:26which will eventually become part of the riverbank, providing homes for fish, crabs and other marine life in the new saltmarsh.
00:32Nature restoration can help repair centuries of heavy industrialisation by restoring biodiversity
00:38and reinstate natural saltmarsh habitats on the remaining exposed areas of the riverbank.
00:43Rebecca O'Connell, Environment Programme Team Leader for the Environment Agency in the North East, said
00:49In England we have lost over 85% of our saltmarsh, 50% of our sea grassland, 5% of our native oyster reefs.
00:56With the loss of habitats comes a loss of valuable benefits and ecosystems.