Ambitious plans for what would be England's largest continuous new native forest have been announced by the Woodland Trust for a location covering 850 acres near St Albans, Hertfordshire.
The Trust announced proposals to plant more than 600,000 native trees on land it has earmarked to buy near Sandridge, between St Albans and Harpenden. The proposed forest would be bigger than London's 770-acre post-2012 Olympic 'Urban Park'. It will also be the single largest native woodland site owned in England by the trust. The land, currently farmland, has pockets of ancient woodland providing wildlife habitat.
