Installing a pond in your back garden,

[David_Spardo]

There is another thread which touches on this but suffice to say that, as far as I am aware, permission is not needed and the safety rules regarding swimming pools do not apply.

Based on that assumption I dug 3 ponds in my garden, originally all connected, some 18 odd years ago, the highest, and largest one, is in the shade of the surrounding forest. This is the one I use for swimming throughout the year and is 7 metres long and about 3 metres wide but, as it was dug out of solid rock, the shape of the width and depth (about 2 metres) is variable.

Edit: This is the other thread:

I want to create a pond in my back garden

I would be grateful for any advice on creating a small pond for wildlife. I don’t want fish in it but would welcome frogs, toads and newts, etc. I have done a small amount of background reading about the basics of making a pond. I want to avoid using a plastic liner and was wondering whether clay would be suitable? Where I live (in the Manche) there is a lot of “argile” (ie clay) available - it used to be an important building materia. I’m far from sure clay would be a suitable lining material, though. I think I read that creating a pond near to houses needs permission but mine would only be of a few square metres. The nearest pond to my planned one is 250 metres away. Would my little one be naturally colonised by the local frogs, etc? As you can probably tell, I am a “débutant intégral” on this subject so any advice will be much appreciated. Clive