The Southampton Way Nature Corridor has been awarded £38k by Southwark Council’s Biodiversity Fund 2025. The project covers five small green spaces along Southampton Way.
New planting for wildlife will be added to each space to provide better habitats and food sources for birds, bats, insects (including butterflies and moths). Additional features to encourage wildlife include bat boxes, bug hotels, insect water stations and log piles. Work will take place during 2026.
Southwark Nature Action Volunteers, Wells Way Triangle Greening Group and Friends of Burgess Park are working together on the project.
Find out more on Instagram @SouthamptonWayNatureCorridor.
Southampton Way Nature Corridor sites:
- Wodehouse Woodland Garden – opposite Oliver Goldsmith Primary School – increase woodland groundcover plants especially springtime bluebells and more native shrubs with berries
- Commercial Way junction/Southampton Way – depaving around street trees and planting to add drought resistant summer colour to this sunny spot
- Peckham horse trough – Peckham Grove/Southampton Way – planting under the trees with small shrubs with seeds, berries and flowers for insects and birds.
- Wells Way/Southampton Way – green spaces outside the shops – enhance the planting to reduce rubbish dumping and provide seasonal berries and flowers for wildlife.
- Burgess Park – entrance way new low level planting with seasonal interest. Southwark Council Parks are funding removal of the Russian Vine that has overgrown plants and buildings, January 2026.
Our theme for the corridor is woodlands.
The nature corridor will help support priority species: bats, sparrows, song thrushes, starlings, as well as other birds, pollinators and a wide range of invertebrates.
We’ve chosen a woodpecker as our symbol as they are already around nearby. By making the nature corridor more friendly for wildlife we hope to see woodpeckers visit soon.
