saving-the-bedmond-lane-wildlife-meadow
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Yours with horror at such underhand ways,
Alison veness
Bedmond Lane Meadow
Bedmond Lane Meadow
I've also written to Andy Neidhardt to object to the planning application:
Dear Andy,
Re Planning application 5/2014/1394
The open greenery between Mayne Avenue and Bedmond Lane in St Albans is an asset for all who live near, drive past and use it. I’m so very pleased that the owners, Banner Homes, have allowed common access to it for all these years.
But now I learn that the owners seek to build a fence around it - an ugly addition to our environment. It’s my belief that they seek to fence it off, not because they’ve suddenly acquired a love of horses and need to put them out to pasture, but because they wish to block it from being added to the District Community Asset Register. I understand their motivation. It’s their land and presumably they bought it with the intention of trying to get planning permission in the future; being on the asset register could scupper that.
However, I ask that the council rejects the planning application to turn the land from ‘agricultural’ to ‘the keeping of horses’ in order to maintain the local aesthetics. I reiterate that a fence would be an ugly addition to our environment.
On a final note, I would love the Verulam Residents Association – of which I am a member - to find a way to buy the land (through grants etc). Whilst there will be those who scoff at the idea, the land doesn’t have planning permission and there’s no guarantee that it ever will. This means it’s not necessarily worth hundreds of thousands of pounds or millions.
Yours sincerely,
Jessica Chivers
with their dogs.Only because of it being declared an asset of community value under the Localism Act has the owners taken any interest.
and think it would be a shame to lose this open space.
http://www.plantlife.org.uk/
has anyone contacted the above organisation for support and advice? Also, they are running a meadow flower count project (registration closes 30 July) that may help the cause.
All meadows are vital to life and that includes farming. Without biodiversity and the protection of pollinating insects, our planet is essentially doomed.
I have also sent a message to HRH Prince of Wales project; http://coronationmeadows.org.uk/
Please, I urge everyone to lobby as many organisations as possible, this petition is not enough on it's own!
Unsightly fencing will replace the natural hedges which have grown up over the years and nest sites for many species of birds and small mammals will disappear. Local residents who currently enjoy seeing these species will be impoverished by the inevitable loss of wildlife which would occur if the meadow became horse grazing pasture.
Also don't understand how horses could survive without facilities ie water,bedding and general keep
mrs susie bee
The prospect of masses of ugly fencing being put into a wildlife area fills me with horror. The field proposed to be used for horse grazing is obviously a ploy to potential house development. The land at present is beautiful, and a calm environment for nature to enjoy what nature does. To develop this land for anything other than nature is totally inappropriate for the area. If the horses are put there for grazing, how long before some vandals appear to set them free? There is no valid reason to put horses on Bedmond Lane/Mayne Avenue other than to rile the community that uses the land. There will be so much fencing, it will be almost impossibe to find the horses as there is a footpath between the two roads, which will have to be fenced off - unless of course the footpath will be closed for the wretched horses. Horses can jump - will the neigh(pardon the pun)hood be plagued by horses trampling gardens and destroying people's possessions,
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