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Please respond to #Brighton Council's consultation on City Plan 2 to help #SaveWhitehawkHill Nature Reserve (& other 'urban fringe' sites) from built development. Link to our guidance notes here - tinyurl.com/yyctuumc Nature needs a home too!
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We don't want to "trespass".
We want to pass through the land freely, but if doing so makes us "trespassers" - let us #trespass far and wide!
Find out more about free walking through our website here: landscapesoffreedom.com/abou…
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Join us! We do this together.
Join us to build the #RighttoRoam movement.
Join us on Saturday 24th July for a peaceful #MassTrespass and picnic on the Brighton Downs.
Talks, poetry, song, drawing, play.
Walking, talking, meeting, sharing.
Join: landscapesoffreedom.com
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Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) photographed by Stephen Savage. "I have been tracking fox visits to my urban garden near #Brighton. Saw this fox strolling across the lawn in our back garden before disappearing, it returned an hour later" #Hove #Wildlife #Nature #Biodiversity
ALT Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in garden near #Brighton.
Friends of Whitehawk Hill retweeted
Rewilding the landscape can and should go hand in hand with extending Right to Roam.
Don't believe me? Check out this great video by ecologist Dave Bangs and the Brighton Downs Alliance. They want to restore nature and roaming rights to the South Downs:
youtube.com/watch?v=3r043Xzm…
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A local hero in #Brighton. landofthebrightonline.co.uk/ @whitehawkhill @MatthewPope @CampaignerKate @MarionShoard
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Brighton's downlands are under continuous threat from the Council wanting to build over it, such as Whitehawk Hill Nature Reserve theargus.co.uk/news/18055610…
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CONSULTATION ENDS MIDNIGHT THIS FRIDAY 30TH
If you haven’t filled it in please do so to help SAVE WHITEHAWK HILL.
This is our last chance! Please take part & object.
Here’s our guidance notes in Dropbox tinyurl.com/y35l2ap6
There were plans for a butterfly bank some years back. Yet butterflies abound all round the nature reserve. Isolated projects like this totally fail to understand whole landscapes & interconnected species.
Probably means a 'Butterfly Bank' ... where chalk is dumped and CG species seed applied. No connectivity. Zero genuine benefit for #Biodiversity. 'Educational Value' alone.
CONSULTATION ENDS MIDNIGHT THIS FRIDAY 30TH
If you haven’t filled it in please do so to help SAVE WHITEHAWK HILL.
This is our last chance! Please take part & object.
Here’s our guidance notes in Dropbox tinyurl.com/y35l2ap6
.@TraceyMHill, this is not about ‘feeling strongly’. Show me an urban fringe site as richly valuable as #WhitehawkHill. We have surveys from National level specialists to prove this.
But then you think the councils mitigation’s will “improve #biodiversity”, which is nonsense.
Friends of Whitehawk Hill retweeted
As city councillors, we have to make decisions for the whole city. People right across Brighton and Hove feel just as strongly about their local spaces as you do. And actually, there are just as many objections to applications on brownfield sites!
This is NOT true! In the last two years we have had very little support from the Greens on protecting the urban fringe, on supporting our campaign to #SaveWhitehawkHill, despite it being a statutory nature reserve.
No, this is incorrect @TraceyMHill. We were lead to believe this for a long time but now find out that there WAS the option to remove sites. Particularly ours, which is a statutory Nature Reserve.
Stop playing a politics blame game with our Downland. Yes, OURS. @robert_nemeth
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Many have probably heard that various matters today relating to the destruction of #Brighton & #Hove’s urban fringe are due to be discussed at Full Council today. @BHConservatives are again calling on Labour/Greens to think again and save these precious spaces.
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This is the site of the Long-tailed Blues - under threat AGAIN. Please respond if you have a spare 10mins 🙏
#butterflies #sussex
Please respond to #Brighton Council's consultation on City Plan 2 to help #SaveWhitehawkHill Nature Reserve (& other 'urban fringe' sites) from built development. Link to our guidance notes here - tinyurl.com/yyctuumc Nature needs a home too!
Our guidance session is tonight at 7.30 for anyone who want to help #SaveWhitehawkHill by filling in the #Brighton City plan 2 consultation but finds it a bit tricky. Help is at hand. The Zoom link is in the facebook link or PM us for it.
Want further guidance? Join our Zoom this Thursday 22nd, 7.30pm. These consultations can be tricky, and quite specific. Email to register please: [email protected]
tinyurl.com/yxtgdlwp
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Please respond to #Brighton Council's consultation on City Plan 2 to help #SaveWhitehawkHill Nature Reserve (& other 'urban fringe' sites) from built development. Link to our guidance notes here - tinyurl.com/yyctuumc Nature needs a home too!
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Eye-rolling levels of short-sightedness here from farming union that seems to think beavers cause more flooding, rather than in fact slowing the flow of floodwaters downstream.
A plan to release up to six beavers into a Powys nature reserve has been criticised as 'short sighted' by the Farmers' Union of Wales
farminguk.com/news/powys-bea…
