The Customer
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is a rich mosaic of wildlife habitats over 78 hectares of lakes, riverside, meadow, reed bed, scrub and woodland situated in the Great Ouse valley between St Neots and Huntingdon.
The reserve is famous for its nightingales and cormorants, and is host to a wide variety of other birds, insects, mammals and flora.
The site is managed by Huntingdonshire District Council and is supported by the Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve.
The Customer
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is a rich mosaic of wildlife habitats over 78 hectares of lakes, riverside, meadow, reed bed, scrub and woodland situated in the Great Ouse valley between St Neots and Huntingdon.
The reserve is famous for its nightingales and cormorants, and is host to a wide variety of other birds, insects, mammals and flora.
The site is managed by Huntingdonshire District Council and is supported by the Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve.
The S Jones Solution
The Hide was designed and produced from an initial concept based on a 40ft container, cut down to 30ft with vandal resistant inwards opening windows, with top hinged friction hinges and anti-loose latches.
It has a steel insulated interior, internal shelves, footrests and stools that are chained to the floor, a canopy roof accessory to reduce solar gain and provide rainwater collection and a disabled access personnel door. The unit was then painted in S Jones’s specialist 450m3 heated and filtered air paint oven.
What Paxton Pits Had To Say
Local volunteer David Cobham said the Friends were thrilled with their new container “hide”.
“We are delighted with the standard of finish of the hide, which will be our flagship structure on the Reserve,” he said.
Senior Ranger Jim Stevenson said: “When the Hayden Hide burned down last August, most volunteers and staff saw this as a disaster and the end of an era.
“However, when the new Hayden Hide arrived at Paxton Pits we all agreed that it was an upgrade from the old wooden hide we loved. Whereas the old was a rather grandiose garden shed, the new one is more like a holiday chalet!”
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