A HOYLANDSWAINE housing estate has become the builder’s first to include a ‘hedgehog highway’ aimed at helping to support the dwindling population.

The St John’s Walk development will include the ‘highway’ which features openings in garden fences to allow the creatures to move around more freely following the development of the site.

It is the first of three sites being developed by David Wilson Homes to include the feature and they called in 20 children from Hoylandswaine Primary School for an early lesson in wildlife conservation as the work went ahead.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle