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Environmental sustainability & conservation

Contributing to Grosvenor’s global carbon commitment to reduce emissions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, across our rural estates we maintain an unwavering commitment to protecting, enhancing and restoring sensitive environmental habitats and to improving local property and places, helping to address both the climate and nature crises.

Understanding our natural assets 

We’re undergoing a major project to better understand our natural capital, investigating all the natural assets on the estate including soils and all living things, to enable more informed land-use decisions, enhancing their benefit for nature recovery and our communities.

Improving local property and places

A key focus is also placed on reducing the carbon footprint of our property activities through an ongoing programme of sustainable retrofits of our properties and renewable energy scheme investments. 

Sensitive land management

Across the Eaton Estate, we manage 750Ha of woodlands to enhance biodiversity, for their amenity value and to help combat the local effects of climate change – capturing atmospheric carbon, cooling and improving water quality, and reducing the risk of flooding downstream – as well as the production of sustainable raw materials for use across Grosvenor’s rural estates.

We are also responsible for managing part of the River Dee Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – a protected conservation area designated for its flora and fauna that includes wild Atlantic salmon, otters, and rare species of dragonfly – two nature reserves that are managed in partnership with the local Wildlife Trust and more than 100 Ha of wetlands as well as one of the UK's largest hay meadows, much of which was planted in the last several years.

Read more below about our work to promote nature recovery and climate resilience. 

Sensitive land management

Across the Eaton Estate, we manage 750Ha of woodlands to enhance biodiversity, for their amenity value and to help combat the local effects of climate change – capturing atmospheric carbon, cooling and improving water quality, and reducing the risk of flooding downstream – as well as the production of sustainable raw materials for use across Grosvenor’s rural estates.

We are also responsible for managing part of the River Dee Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – a protected conservation area designated for its flora and fauna that includes wild Atlantic salmon, otters, and rare species of dragonfly – two nature reserves that are managed in partnership with the local Wildlife Trust and more than 100 Ha of wetlands as well as one of the UK's largest hay meadows, much of which was planted in the last several years.

Read more below about our work to promote nature recovery and climate resilience. 

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