So the site here at Hayhills is going to be one of 10 LLoyds Banking Group woods. It's 38 hectares, 94 acres in size. It's a great asset in terms of biodiversity, creating new native broadleaf woodland, also extending the habitat in terms of existing woodland and also more importantly for the local community. It's going to be a great asset, extending existing access, public rights of way on the site and just a great place for volunteering people to get involved.
So areas like this will use the benefit of the existing woodland so we can buffer that and, where we can, allow it to do its own thing. And there'll be areas of the site where we'll maintain these amazing views over the wider landscape. Some areas will be a bit denser planted. Some areas will be left as open meadow and other areas we've got the existing hedgerow and things like that as well.
Well, what's happening here at Hayhills is a great example of collaboration, not only with the Woodland Trust but also with Lloyds Banking Group getting involved in acquiring a site for public benefit. And we're seeing a really unique site here where you've got some woodland that is bolting onto a new planting scheme, creating a wildlife corridor. And this is all about providing additional public access, additional learning opportunities for young people, not only in the Keighley and Ilkley constituency but further afield.
At the Woodland Trust we're all about making sure we've got more trees and woods in the landscape. And an area like this, historically, it would have been a lot more wooded. So it's bringing back that biodiversity and woodland that would've been here centuries ago, in effect. There's discussion with them about the sort of access as well and the planting should help in terms of natural flood management and reducing pollution.
And it's really good that when you've got a banking organisation like Lloyds wanting to get involved in these nature-based projects in providing the funding but working with the likes of yourselves at the Woodland Trust, it just goes to show that when people and big organisations come together, you can deliver for local communities through nature-based projects and planting schemes right here just outside Silsden.