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Kier Otter project declared new national nature reserve

Lower Otter Restoration Project
The River Otter is home to otters and to England’s first population of native wild-living beavers (Image: Lukas Blazek via Dreamstime.com)

Kier has completed works on the Lower Otter Restoration Project, enabling the 55ha wetland habitat to be declared a new national nature reserve.

The coastal engineering project is a partnership initiative between landowners Clinton Devon Estates and the Environment Agency to restore the historic floodplain of the Otter Estuary near Budleigh Salterton, East Devon.

It is one of the biggest coastal climate adaptation and habitat creation projects in England.

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