Travel Places creates a permanent woodland

We have created a permanent woodland, planting over 1,125 trees on land in North Devon, as we continue our efforts to support a more sustainable future.

Purchasing the land in 2023, we have worked with the Woodland Trust to plant a range of native trees, which will help create a haven for wildlife, boost biodiversity, and absorb harmful carbon dioxide from the air.

Woods and trees are not only good for the environment, but good for people too, helping to clean the air we breathe, improve the quality of the water we drink, and provide habitat to wildlife. And they play an important role in helping to mitigate climate change.

Travel Places’ woodland, which is called Myland Meadows, has an initial capacity for a total of 4,000 trees*, providing the potential to capture and absorb a huge amount of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years of growth, helping to make a cleaner, greener world for people and wildlife, now and for generations to come.

Travel Places Joint Managing Director, Matt Warren, said of the project:

“Creating a woodland was just one step we’re taking to increase our positive impact on the world around us and we hope it will have far-reaching benefits for decades to come – for the land, the local community, and the environment.”

“We are a carbon neutral business, having taken steps to significantly reduce our carbon emissions and offsetting those that remain. In time, we hope to be able to use our woodland as an offsetting scheme, providing full visibility and confidence as we compensate the emissions we can’t avoid.”

The trees planted in the Travel Places woodland are all native and so far species include Field Maple, Silver Birch, Crab Apple and Common Oak.

* In line with woodland management, our trees will be thinned over time. This is the removal of some trees or parts of trees within woodland, which ensures the best trees grow at the fastest rate, allowing a more diverse woodland structure and helping to futureproof the landscape.