Construction work for the 150 homes on the nature reserve at the WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is already underway, to meet the pressing housing needs of prospective residents in the area.

Recognising the sensitivity of the location, they are being built from wood to blend in with their natural surroundings and add to the development's green credentials.

But just in case concerned townspeople in Arundel think they might have missed a controversial planning application, or overlooked the story in the Littlehampton Gazette, they can rest assured that the homes won't be a blot on the landscape, in fact they will hardly be noticed at all, as they stand just a few inches tall, and are intended for dormice, rather than human occupation.

What's more, over this half-term week (up to and including Sunday, February 22), children are being invited to visit the centre and help staff build the dormice dwellings. For a modest donation of £5, they can build, number and sponsor the monitoring of one of the dormice homes and will be able to check up on the progress of their house and its inhabitants on the Arundel Wetland Centre website www.wwt.org.uk/arundel

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