Nunthorpe
This site is in the Tees Lowlands National Character Area and supplies units to developments across North East. We own it freehold and protect it in perpetuity.
Exact location and grid reference shared on enquiry.
- Planning authority
- Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough
- Developments supplied
- 132
- Tenure
- Owned freehold
- Protection
- In perpetuity
About the site
Morton Grange Farm lies east of Nunthorpe, on the Tees Lowlands towards Guisborough. It was mostly arable, with pasture along the western edge, two woods including part of Boundary Plantation, hedgerows and lines of trees, and the Main Stell beck along the eastern boundary with a tributary crossing the site. The Guisborough Branch Walkway Local Nature Reserve, a disused railway line important for willow tit, runs along the northern edge.
The arable fields are becoming a mosaic of mixed scrub with glades, rides and clearings, and traditional orchard over grassland. The pasture is being enhanced to species-rich neutral grassland, the woods managed for tree health, deadwood and native cover, the hedgerows gapped up and given standard trees, and the banks of the Main Stell, its tributary and the ditch improved. Badger, curlew, kestrel, linnet, meadow pipit, reed bunting and yellowhammer have been recorded on the site, with water vole, brown hare and five bat species nearby. The site also generates nitrogen credits.
Managed under a habitat management and monitoring plan, with condition surveyed by independent ecologists and reported to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
Recorded on site
Some of what our team has found at Nunthorpe.
Habitats at Nunthorpe
Availability changes as units are allocated, so tell us what you need and we’ll confirm.
- Ditches
- Linear wet features supporting aquatic plants and invertebrates.
- Neutral grassland
- Species-rich neutral grassland, the workhorse habitat for area-based units.
- Traditional orchard
- Priority habitat combining fruit trees, grassland and deadwood.
- Mixed scrub
- Structurally diverse scrub providing nesting, shelter and forage.
- Watercourse
- Rivers and streams generating watercourse units.
- Hedgerow
- Species-rich native hedgerow with trees, generating hedgerow units.
- Broadleaved woodland
- Native broadleaved woodland with a developing understorey.
- Mixed deciduous woodland
- Lowland mixed deciduous woodland, a priority habitat type.
Location
Neighbouring areas are in lighter green. The dot shows the general location.
Which developments this site can serve
No multiplier in the home area and a reduced one in adjacent areas.
Home area, no multiplier
- Tees Lowlands
Adjacent areas served
- Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe
- Durham Magnesian Limestone Plateau
- North York Moors and Cleveland Hills
- Pennine Dales Fringe
- Vale of Mowbray
Local planning authorities
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Middlesbrough
Neighbouring authorities
- North York Moors National Park
- Hartlepool
- Stockton-on-Tees
- North Yorkshire
How this site is secured
What your authority will examine
Who owns the land, what binds it, and who is responsible if the habitat fails.
Here
We own the land freehold and a conservation covenant or planning obligation protects it permanently, with condition independently monitored throughout.
Who stands behind the obligation
- The land
- We own the land freehold, with no lease and no third-party landowner.
- The covenant
- A conservation covenant or planning obligation protecting each site in perpetuity, registered against the title.
- Responsible Body
- An independent Responsible Body or the local authority can step in if we ever fail to deliver.
- The endowment
- Long-term management is funded by an endowment set aside at allocation.
- Financial strength
- We have £56.5m of capital for land and habitat, and are rated Very Low Risk with an international credit score of A. That capital lets us buy land and create habitat before your programme needs it, and fund its management for the long term.
Check availability at Nunthorpe
Send us your metric and postcode and within a day we’ll confirm what is available here, any multiplier and the price.