The Great Fen Masterplan:
Exciting plans for the future unveiled...
Using maps and images, the Great Fen Masterplan sets out how the Great Fen will re-create fourteen square miles (over 9000 acres) of ancient fen landscape over the coming years and decades, to become an internationally important place for wildlife and people.
The team would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the Great Fen Masterplan consultation in 2009. Over 500 people of all ages, interests and abilities contributed their ideas and comments on the draft Masterplan. This has helped us to shape not just the published Masterplan, but also our other ongoing work and plans.
The Masterplan is not a blueprint for what will definitely happen on the ground but it is indicative and makes suggestions of what might be possible where. This is all subject to detailed planning and future discussions with all stakeholders.
You can discover more about the Masterplan, including plans for:
- New footpaths, cycleways and bridleways linking to local communities
- A visitor centre with a café, trails, natural play areas and events
- Events, community work and education
- Benefits for local businesses and tourism
- Areas to store floodwater during high rainfall to help protect surrounding farmland and communities
- A mosaic of wildlife habitats
Great Fen Masterplan: Public Information Booklet
Discover more about Great Fen plans for the future in our Great Fen Masterplan: Public Information Booklet, which includes:
- An introduction the Great Fen
- A summary of consultation results
- Answers to some of the Frequently Asked Questions
- A summary of the Great Fen Masterplan including maps and images
Great Fen Masterplan: the Full Masterplan Report
More detailed information about the Masterplan, including strategic drivers, the Great Fen vision and aims, and detailed habitat information, can be found in the full Masterplan Report. You can download the individual chapters, below. Please note some of the files are quite large in size so please be patient while it downloads:
Section 2- The Masterplanning process
Section 4- The Physical Geography and Ecology of the Great Fen
Section 5- People, Communities and Heritage
Section 6- Great Fen Aims and Objectives
Section 7- The Great Fen Masterplan
Section 8- The Heart of the Great Fen
Masterplan Consultation: How have people been involved?
The Masterplan work builds on the consultation with the general public, as well as conservation and wildlife experts, access and activity specialists, local residents, councillors, tourism and business specialists. The Masterplan Consultation Report provides a summary of the consultation.
