FOUR wildlife ponds are to be built by the Dorset Wildlife Trust on a site near Corscombe.
The Trust will construct the havens for great crested newts and other creatures on land known as Brackets Coppice, Higher Halstock.
Two of the ponds will be built at Outer Bracket’s Plantation and two at Birch Common, both woodland areas. The nature reserve site supports a range of species including door mice, woodpecker, kingfishers and otters.
Halstock Parish Council has supported the application with Natural England giving its approval, and some funding, for the digging of the new ponds for protected species, primarily great crested newts, with the spoil from the ponds to be distribute around the pond edges.
The Trust was recently given consent for three similar ponds at its reserve at Kingcombe.
Each of the ponds will be about 10 metres across and roughly circular to a maximum depth of 1.2metres with each having a surface area of no more than 100square metres.
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