Projects
Here’s a selection of projects we’ve delivered across the South West
Harpford Common NFM – East Devon
The Back Brook flows through the village of Newton Poppleford in East Devon, with its catchment containing a mixture of pebblebed heaths, woodland and farmland. The village itself is prone to flooding, and the Climate Resilient Otter Catchment (CROC) project funded NFM works in September 2025 to slow flows, reduce flood risk, and improve water quality.
Our practical delivery team installed a varied combination of flow spreaders within the wooded floodplain and leaky dams in-channel to intercept peak-flows and reduce the flood risk to the village downstream.
Farrantshays - East Devon
South West Natural Solutions guided this project from design to implementation. The site has previously been drained extensively, with a historic water course being confined to a perched ditch system. Exploring the potential for reinstating the flow into its previous route and maximising opportunity to intercept flows, create habitat and increase surface storage for natural flood management through a stage 0 scheme. The interventions span 3 ha within an permanent pasture field and include 13 bunds and 15 scrapes, designed to slow water flow and store surface water runoff.
Cornish Hedge Project - Farm Carbon Toolkit
As part of the Cornish Hedge Project our team were calculating hedge bank volumes to feed into metric-driven estimations of on-farm carbon storage. Over 4km of hedge banks were captured via drone and translated into a digital model. Volume calculations could then be taken and combined with ground-truthing of vegetation/stone/soil proportions to inform a wider study & methodology held by FCT.